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  3 August 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "Prayers unite us, wherever we are": preparations for the first mission of the SMA fathers in the Country Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday, July 24, the priestly ordination of Father Davide Camorani was celebrated, a priest of the Society for African Missions (SMA), who is preparing to leave for the Central African Repub ...
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  3 August 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Covid-19: Mayor of Managua holds celebrations for the feast of St. Domingo de Guzman without the approval of the Catholic Church Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, on the feast of our patron saint, we should take the opportunity to ask ourselves what moves us to seek the Lord", said the Archbishop of Managua, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, at the mass o ...
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  3 August 2021
  ASIA - Effects of the pandemic on workers in the textile industry: "Unimaginable human suffering" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - What is the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Asian economy and, in particular, on one of the most important branches of production in many countries in the region? A study by the "Clean Cl ...
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  3 August 2021
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - March against the imposition of gender ideology San Juan (Agenzia Fides) - The Puerto Rican Bishops' Conference has called for a march on August 14th against the introduction of gender ideology in the country's public school program. In an official statement, the Pre ...
• 3 August 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Bishops condemn theft and attacks on churches in Mbujimayi and Kinshasa Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "These are deliberate acts of desecration, despicable and particularly revolting acts", said His Exc. Mgr. Bernard-Emmanuel Kasanda Mulenga, Bishop of Mbujimayi, about the recent thefts and att ...
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  2 August 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops express solidarity on the occasion of the World Holocaust Day of the Roma people Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "The Colombian Church, through the Episcopal Conference, wishes to express its deepest sense of solidarity with the Roma peoples around the world and in particular with the Roma who have lived in ...
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  2 August 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - More than 15,000 internally displaced persons in the city of Tombura are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance Tombura (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of 15,000 internally displaced persons in Tombura alone is becoming more serious every day, said Kia Moses, representative of the Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (C ...
• 2 August 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Catholic women mobilized to contain the third wave of Covid-19 and to promote vaccination Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - “The fear of the third wave of COVID-19 is the beginning of wisdom, the infection rate is rising again. We must do whatever is necessary to avoid getting infected. We must be in constant contact ...
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  31 July 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Missionaries prepared to face today's challenges: the PMS Missionary Formation Center inaugurated Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Promote and foster paths of permanent formation, missionary updating and accompaniment of pastoral workers and all the people of God: this is the objective of the new Missionary Formation Center ...
• 31 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "St. John" Regional Philosophical Seminary in Visakhapatnam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 20, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed the rev. Fr. Thumma Vijay Prathap, of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SD ...
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  31 July 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Preparations for the diocese of Zomba in view of World Mission Day begin Zomba (Agenzia Fides) - "Encourage Christians to pray within their families; create greater awareness of World Mission Day and the missionary obligations of each baptized person; ask the faithful to contribute financiall ...
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  31 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops join the cry of "so many brothers and sisters who ask for peace, respect for life and human rights" Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Bishops of Colombia support this cry for peace, life and respect for the human dignity of so many of our brothers and sisters", declared the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, expre ...
• 31 July 2021
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - "No to destabilization and the seizure of power by force", say the Bishops Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - "We are against any form of destabilization and seizing power by force", declared His Eminence Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana, Archbishop of Toamasina and President of the Episcopal Conferen ...
• 31 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Nalgonda Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the Diocese of Nalgonda (India), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Joji Govindu. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 31/7/2021) ...
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  31 July 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic priest arrested by rebels and accused of having contact with the regular army Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic priest Fr. Noel Hrang Tin Thang, parish priest of the Catholic church in the city of Surkhua, in the diocese of Hakha, was taken and arrested by local militias in the Burmese state of ...