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  2 March 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The meeting between Simon Bolivar and the Bishop of Maracaibo two centuries ago challenges our situation today Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "A historic and significant event for our beloved homeland": this is how the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela descrive the meeting between " Libertador" Simón Bolívar and Mgr. Rafael Lasso de ...
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  1 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops: "Euthanasia is always the wrong way" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Peruvian Bishops' Conference gives its opinion on the first case of euthanasia in the history of Peru: the country's judiciary has ordered the Ministry of Health and Social Security (EsSalud) " ...
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  1 March 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops want reliable and independent judges Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - Regarding the "obvious and persistent difficulties" in choosing the members of the courts, the bishops made a statement entitled "The Lord loves justice" (Ps 37:28). First of all, the Pr ...
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  1 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic nun saves young demonstrators: Cardinal Bo wants the country to be "transformed" Myitkyina (Agenzia Fides) - A Catholic religious woman took to the streets in the city of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in the north of Mynamar, and asked the security forces not to shoot young demonstrators who ...
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  1 March 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Health authorities are calling for extreme caution despite the decline in coronavirus infections Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "The severity of the pandemic is unabated, the situation in the region is unstable and worrying", warns the Supreme Committee on Health Emergencies in Sudan. Despite a slight decrease in infect ...
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  1 March 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - 10th Anniversary of the presence of the Xaverian missionaries at the service of the poor and the last, "by witnessing the Gospel of Jesus" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "It all started in 2007 when, during the General Chapter, it was decided to open a new missionary presence in Asia. In times of crisis, marked by the decline in vocations, the aging of the staff ...
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  1 March 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christians remember Paulos Rahho. Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, 13 years after his kidnapping and death Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - As they prepare to welcome Pope Francis, Iraqi Christians commemorate Paulos Faraj Rahho, Archbishop of Mosul, on the thirteenth anniversary of his kidnapping and assassination, and there are thos ...
• 1 March 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - 32 civilians killed in one week in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 32 civilians were killed in a week in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, between Ituri and North Kivu (see also Fides, 27/2/2021). This was announced by CEPADHO (Center for Stu ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Another Christian student kidnapped: The number of cases is increasing in Punjab Gujranwala (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani police have registered a complaint about the kidnapping of another Christian student from Lahore in order to force her into an Islamic marriage. Mehwish Bibi, a student at the W ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Social media and mission: "We need to face a culture of selfishness" Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "The digital revolution has led us to live in a new, distant world that we have not been able to make better: the problems of 'normal' everyday life have been transported into the digital world a ...
• 27 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - After the fatal attack on the Italian Ambassador: More civilians are victims of massacres Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In North Kivu, the eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where on February 22nd, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, his Italian ...
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  27 February 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - About 4 million people affected by food insecurity: the country is on the brink of abyss Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In the latest report by the United Nations Secretary-General on the situation in Haiti, the latter points out the worsening of the economic situation, below-average agricultural productio ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Theophilos III to the Primates of the Orthodox Churches: "the unity of Orthodoxy is our daily prayer" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "I pray daily remembering each of you, offering praise, thanksgiving and intercessions, and knowing that 'his grace is sufficient for us, whose power is made perfect in our weakness' ". Thus T ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Farewell to Msgr. Ramousse, the Bishop who led the rebirth of the Cambodian Church Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Cambodian Church loses one of its most appreciated and loved apostles: French Bishop and missionary Yves Ramousse, Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh from 1962 to 1976 and then, in a second pe ...
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  26 February 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Reflection on the Pontifical Missionary Union at the center of the annual meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The XVII Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain has begun and this time it is taking place in digital form in view of the health situation. Its reflection relates mainly to one of t ...