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• 24 June 2021
  AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, the Reverend John Baptist Attakruh, of the clergy of Sekondi-Takoradi, until now apostolic administrator s ...
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  23 June 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The generosity of the Spanish for the missions, in a year marked by the difficulties of the pandemic Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the financial year, the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain presented the "Activity Report 2020", which reports what the PMS have done in Spain in ...
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  23 June 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Mgr. Lazzaro You Heung-sik: "The Pope's visit to North Korea would be a turning point for peace" Daejeon (Agenzia Fides) - He is the first Korean bishop in the Roman Curia: Lazarus You Heung-sik, 69, was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy by Pope Francis. He was ordained a priest for the diocese ...
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  23 June 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "Today more than ever, our societies need peacemakers" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "After celebrating one of the most significant electoral processes in our history, we call on everyone, regardless of the results of the votes, to build a future, based on the ability to wor ...
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  23 June 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Synod to elect the new Patriarch of Cilicia of the Catholic Armenians begins Bzommar (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of Wednesday, June 23, the Synod of Bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church, called to elect the successor of the Armenian Catholic Patriarch Krikor Bedros XX Ghabroyan, who died ...
• 23 June 2021
  AFRICA/MALI - "The parish priest and the faithful perhaps kidnapped to be used as human shields" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Perhaps the priest and the faithful who accompanied him were kidnapped, at least initially, to serve as human shields by an armed group chased by the army and fleeing towards the border with Bur ...
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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Oxygen concentrators from Spain to the Peruvian forest Toledo (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Archdiocese of Toledo has sent three oxygen concentrators (small machines that obtain oxygen from ambient air) to Peru, to treat patients with Covid-19. The Pastoral Care of Health an ...
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  22 June 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Evangelization and dialogue with Buddhists in the north of the country, for the common good Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "It is important to continue the dialogue of life between Catholics and Buddhists in Thailand", says Mgr. Anthony Weradet Chaiseri, Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng, in the north-eastern region o ...
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  22 June 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - A missionary: "Alongside the people in a local Church that is taking its first steps" Foya (Agenzia Fides) - In many countries of the African continent young people have few prospects and often live by expedients. In Foya, in a remote corner of Liberia, the situation is no different. "The environment is d ...
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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The ministries of the Word and the Eucharist conferred to five members of the Kichwa indigenous communities Puyo (Agenzia Fides) - As part of his pastoral visit to the indigenous communities of Kichwa, settled in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, the Apostolic Vicar of Puyo, Monsignor Rafael Cob, conferred the ministry of the ...
• 22 June 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Let us strengthen national unity by fighting against the negative values that threaten it", exhort the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are positive signs of strengthening national unity, but alongside these there are others that threaten the cohesion of the Country, say the Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in ...
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  22 June 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The lay faithful, evangelizers in the suburbs Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "There is an urgent need to reach our parish faithful, stay in contact with them, pray with them and make them feel that the Church cares for them and is close to them in every need or difficult ...
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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US bishops urged to find ways to welcome, serve immigrants Texas (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, encouraged prelates meeting via Zoom for the U.S. bishops' virtual spring assembly to find ways to welcome what may be a growing number of immigrants to the ...
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  22 June 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Churches participate in the subscriptions for the celebrations of Eid al Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Daily coexistence between Muslim and Christian communities in Countries with an Islamic majority is often marked by problems and accidents, but it is also strewn with gestures of mutual generosity ...
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  21 June 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - With two new priests, the Burmese community in Italy remembers "the suffering homeland" and prays for Aung San Suu Kyi Monza (Agenzia Fides) - "We remember Aung San Suu Kyi in our prayers so that with the blessing of God she will have good health and the wishes of her heart come true", says Sister Beatrice, a Burmese nun living in Italy ...