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  21 May 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops: sanctions against Damascus "to be removed", Palestinians victims of "brutal aggression". And they thank the Pope Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The economic sanctions of Western countries against Assad's Syria, culminating in the so-called "Caesar Act" issued by the US Administration led by Donald Trump, are unjust and must be removed, a ...
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  21 May 2021
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh: a new live Catholic channel on the web to offer spiritual support to the faithful Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "The Lord also writes straight on the crooked lines of life": with this spirit the Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh, Mgr. Olivier Schmitthauesler, speaks to Fides about the work of the Catholic ...
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  20 May 2021
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - A life given for the mission: young people remember the martyrdom of Sister Irene McCormack Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Her example of a life devoted to the Gospel continues to inspire young people today: 30 years after the martyrdom of Sister Irene McCormack, missionary of the Sisters of Saint Joseph executed in ...
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  20 May 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - New oil spill causes damage to communities and the environment: indigenous peoples ignored Loreto (Agenzia Fides) - A new oil spill has been reported in the Corrientes river, near the district of Trompeteros, in the province of Loreto, in the Peruvian Amazon. The leak originated from the plant managed by PlusP ...
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  20 May 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Sustaining the quality of life in minor Seminaries: the commitment of a Catholic organization Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Caring for and managing the collective funding programs to support minor Seminaries in Indonesia: this is the mission of "GOTAUS", an initiative born within the Indonesian Catholic community to ...
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  20 May 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - The global Catholic climate movement celebrates significant progress on the path of ecological conversion Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We will celebrate the Laudato Si anniversary to show how much things have changed for the good", says the Global Catholic Climate Movement (GCCM) Program Manager for Africa Fr. Benedict Ayodi a ...
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  20 May 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Online dissemination workshop for parish communicators of the Archdiocese of La Serena La Serena (Agenzia Fides) - Within the framework of the World Day of Social Communications, the pastoral agents who regularly collaborate in the dissemination of the activities of their communities in the Archdiocese of ...
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  20 May 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - On-line Conference of Missionaries: Strengthening the Diocese-Mission link Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Mission representatives of the Spanish dioceses and diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies came together for a three-day conference under the motto "Pontifical Mission Societies, ...
• 20 May 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Land grabbing and forced deportation of farmers increased during the lockdown for Covid-19 Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation is worsening as the populations of entire districts are forcibly evicted from their lands. Forced evictions are a clear indication that people's rights are being violated", says a ...
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  20 May 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - $ 500 million for the Gaza Strip: Christian churches welcome President al Sisi's initiative Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Patriarchs and bishops support the initiative of President Abdel Fattah al Sisi, who plans to allocate $ 500 million for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip to remedy the damage caused by Israeli ...
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  19 May 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The Bishops: Thousands of migrants are in Ceuta: "do not exploit their legitimate aspirations for political purposes" Ceuta (Agenzia Fides) - "We will restore order in Ceuta as quickly as possible", said Pedro Sánchez, President of the government of Spain, who yesterday was in Ceuta, where there was a massive arrival of immigrants. Sá ...
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  19 May 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - The Bishops: safeguarding and defending the family is the responsibility of civil authorities, but also of each family Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Guatemala have sent a message, "as a greeting of appreciation, a call to hope and an exhortation to the commitment of all families to continue being, with God's blessing, t ...
• 19 May 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - "800 families forcibly evicted are now at risk of Covid" denounces the Bishop of Embu Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "These families face the risk of Covid- 19 pandemic because they are congested in classes without masks, don’t keep distance and have no soap and water for washing. If one person is infected, ...
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  19 May 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NUOVA GUINEA - I Vescovi invitano la popolazione a prepararsi seriamente alle prossime elezioni politiche OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The Bishops invite the population to seriously prepare for the upcoming political elections Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Raise awareness and educate voters to choose their future government ...
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  19 May 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Patriarchs and Bishops gathered in Aleppo: "unsustainable geopolitical pressures" on the peoples of the Middle East Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Syria and the entire Middle East continue to experience a time of pain and suffering, in which the "appalling economic conditions" and the dramatic exodus of the younger generations are intertwin ...