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  4 May 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Archbishop Centellas calls for election promises to be kept: "Hopes must not be disappointed" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Following the recent local elections, the chairman of the Bolivian Bishops' Conference, Archbishop Ricardo Centellas, asked the elected candidates "not to disappoint the trust that people hav ...
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  4 May 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Young Catholics volunteer to assist Covid patients Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - A group of young Catholic volunteers, nuns and priests in the Archdiocese of Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka, in southern India, has begun to assist patients affected by Covid-19 while In ...
• 4 May 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Imam victim of an attack in North Kivu: "He was a lover of peace and tolerance" Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We regret the death of this unifying and moderate imam, a lover of peace and tolerance in the context of radical Islamism", said the local non-governmental organization CEPADHO (Center for Stu ...
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  4 May 2021
  VATICAN - Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith looks ahead to the upcoming 200th anniversary celebrations Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On May 3, 2021 the Society for the Propagation of the Faith celebrated the 199th anniversary of its founding and the 99th anniversary of its recognition as "Pontifical". Despite the chal ...
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  4 May 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros on the controversial Ethiopian dam: water is a gift from God, and may God enlighten the rulers Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Water is "a gift from God", that Divine Providence entrusts to human beings in order to guarantee life and prosperity, but as a result of individual and national conflicts of interest, attempts ha ...
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  4 May 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A Catholic nun fasts during Ramadan as a sign of spiritual communion and interreligious solidarity Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic nun, committed to promoting peace and interreligious harmony in Indonesia, has made the decision to share fasting, as a sign of spiritual communion, which the Muslim faithful experien ...
• 3 May 2021
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Appointment of bishop of Tsiroanomandidy Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On April, 30 the Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Tsiroanomandidy, Madagascar, the Reverend Gabriel Randrianantenaina of the clergy of Moramanga, until now secretary ...
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  3 May 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - June 6 elections: bishops ask for the best option, beyond the clashes between parties and candidates Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Mexican Catholic Church has urged its faithful to discern and seek, among the candidates in the June 6 elections, "the best option", beyond the confrontations between parties and candida ...
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  3 May 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - A doctor beatified during the pandemic: José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, "filled with science and faith" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Last Friday in Caracas, Venezuela, José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, lay faithful, was beatified. He was a doctor filled with science and faith: he was able to recognise the face of Christ in ...
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  3 May 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - The Korean Church's farewell to Cardinal Cheong, Pastor "as caring as a mother" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "We live happily in His will for our life. We live happily by helping others to live a happy life": these are the last words of Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, who died on April 27 in Seoul, rem ...
• 3 May 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Labor Day: "Create jobs for young people to avoid the phenomenon of illegal immigration" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we must think about creating family businesses, private companies, this will give jobs to young people who will not think about crossing the Mediterranean", says Fr. Emmanuel Wohi Nin, Se ...
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  3 May 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Building peace in the Amhara region of the country: the commitment of Catholics Debre Berhan (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation led by the Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE), Abba Teshome Fikre, was recently visited the North Shoa conflict area, one of the administrative ar ...
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  3 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Religious and faithful in the world united in Marian prayer for peace and justice in Myanmar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - It is a month of May characterized, in Myanmar and abroad, by the ardent Marian prayer for peace and justice in Myanmar. The international campaign promoted by Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, Ar ...
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  3 May 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï thanks Saudi Arabia and again calls for an "international solution" to the Lebanese crisis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - A "thank you" to Saudi Arabia for allowing at least the Lebanese trucks blocked at the border to enter its territory and unload their goods, before triggering the embargo imposed by Riyadh on imp ...
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  1 May 2021
  VATICAN - Fr. Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, Vietnamese Franciscan Friar, new Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, OFMConv, is the new Secretary General of the Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU), as well as Director of the International Center for Missionary Animation (CIAM) a ...