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  19 July 2021
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Church continues to be a presence of hope and reconciliation, in the midst of a wounded people and deprived of fundamental rights Havana (Agenzia Fides) - Solidarity with the Cuban people due to the difficult social situation they are experiencing continues to be expressed at different levels. Yesterday at the Angelus Pope Francis, who visited the ...
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  19 July 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "It's time to save lives": Cardinal Bo's appeal for "Martyrs' Day", in the midst of the pandemic Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, July 19, is Martyrs' Day. Their blood was shed to make this country a great country. As the COVID spirals out of control, inflicting fear, anxiety and death, the only way we can pay homa ...
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  19 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Attack on nuns, closure of the emergency department of a Catholic hospital Mokama (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Department of the Catholic Hospital of Nazareth in Mokama, southeast of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, was closed after the attack, on July 16, suffered by the nuns who work t ...
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  19 July 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: "Lebanese people are similar to a flock without a shepherd". And he entrusts the nation to St. Charbel Diman (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese people, hungry and bent by the crisis, appear similar to a flock without a shepherd. And in the state of prostration in which they find themselves, also due to the inadequacy of their ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Solidarity of Catholic organizations around the world to support the nation in the second wave of Covid-19 New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While Southwest India, in the Kerala region, records a high number of coronavirus infections (more than 13 thousand cases per day) both in rural and urban areas, and while the mortality rate i ...
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  17 July 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "The most excruciating poverty coexists with the most inconceivable wealth": Social Week 2021 Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Social Week 2021 has ended in Argentina, an event that traditionally involves the main protagonists of the country's business world along with the realities of the Catholic world, particula ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - National prayer for the end of the pandemic Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We behave in the best possible way, respecting the protocols, and for the rest we entrust ourselves to God who always has His unfathomable plans, which human beings do not understand. We believ ...
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  17 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - The mission of the Friars Minor in the world: "Living the Gospel in fraternal communion, building bridges of dialogue among all peoples" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to identify concrete ways ways of 'going out' on mission, responding with joy to the Lord who calls us to conversion, bearing witness to the Gospel according to the authentic Franc ...
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  17 July 2021
  AFRICA/eSWATINI - The Bishop of Manzini: "it is the most serious crisis that can be remembered, no one should expect quick responses" Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - The small African state of eSwatini, known until 2018 as Swaziland, is located in southern Africa, on the eastern flank of the Dragons Mountains, and borders Mozambique to the east and South Afr ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: elections at risk of boycott, even Christians could desert the polls Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The risk of fraud and the experience of having been "robbed" of the quota of parliamentary seats reserved by the electoral system for candidates from Christian communities will push many Christi ...
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  16 July 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Witnesses of hope, faith, solidarity, service: Brazilian nuns in Haiti since 2010 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - To thank all the missionaries sent to Haiti, as part of the Nazaré intercongregational solidarity missionary project that unites the Church of Brazil with that of Haiti, a Eucharist will be ce ...
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  16 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Puerto Rican Briseida Cotto Ayala is the new president of the Missionary Community of Villaregia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Briseida Cotto Ayala, Puerto Rican, 52, is the third president elected to lead the Missionary Community of Villaregia, a community made up of consecrated laity, priests, married couples and individ ...
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  16 July 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Stop the conflict and pave the way for dialogue and reconciliation: joint appeal by religious leaders Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent to bring to light what has happened over the years between the communities of Zande and Balanda which has created inequality, fear, interest, injustice and lack of the rule ...
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  16 July 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Demonstrations of the Burmese diaspora around the world: recognition of the Government of national unity is being asked Venice (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese diaspora and those who support civil resistance to the military junta met in various places on the planet on the weekend of July 17 and 18 to honor the many generations who died in M ...
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  16 July 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A YouTube channel for the Church in Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A Youtube channel for the Catholic Church in Korea: this is the initiative launched by the "Catholic Peace Broadcasting Corporation" (CPBC) in order to be present on the network and offer the fait ...