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• 12 February 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Resignation of auxiliary bishop of the apostolic vicariate of El Beni Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary bishop of the apostolic vicariate of El Beni, Bolivia, presented by Bishop Roberto Bordi, O.F.M., titular of Mutuge ...
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  12 February 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Opening of the first formation house for young Camillian aspirants Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Twenty years ago I never thought I would reach this day. After joining the Camillian religious Order of the Ministers of the Sick, I immediately began to dream of the Order's presence in Pakist ...
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  12 February 2021
  EUROPE/POLAND - The PMS look to the future with hope: towards the great jubilees of the PMS and the Synod of Missionary Childhood Warsaw (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the provisions to contain the coronavirus epidemic, the meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Poland took place on February 9th as part of a video conference. Diocesan directors f ...
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  12 February 2021
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Bishops make churches and staff available for vaccinations and call for inequalities to be reduced Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - After concluding the annual Ordinary Assembly of the Episcopal Conference of Panama (CEP), held from 8 to 10 February, during which they analyzed the social and pastoral situation of the cou ...
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  12 February 2021
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Founder of the "City of Friendship": Missionary nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - The missionary and founder of the "City of Friendship" in Opeka, which Pope Francis visited during his visit to Madagascar in September 2019, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The 72 ...
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  12 February 2021
  VATICAN - Accompanying the studies of priests and nuns from all over the world: the Domus Missionalis Foundation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "We want to make students from all over the world to experience the catholicity and universality of the Church. The main purpose of the Domus Missionalis Foundation is to look after and acc ...
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  12 February 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appeal of the former Bishop of Pemba in the face of the suffering of the population due to the conflict and the worsening of the refugee situation in Cabo Delgado Pemba (Agenzia Fides) - "The Province of Capo Delgado has been suffering from a terrorist war for three years and four months, which has caused the flight of over 600 thousand people and the death of more than two thousa ...
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  12 February 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Prayer of the Bishops for the protection of all families on the occasion of the Lunar New Year Kuching (Agenzia Fides) - Send a Greeting Message for the Lunar New Year - in February 12, 2021 - and pray for the protection of all families, such is the initiative taken by the Bishops of Malaysia who see in this occas ...
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  12 February 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - "Master, don't you care that we are about to perish?" Syrian Lent according to Archbishop of Damascus Damascus (Agenzia Fides) - Destroyed by war and suffocated by economic sanctions, Syria is like a ship sinking in a storm. And to the disciples of Christ who are in Syria, in this state, the same anguished words come to ...
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  10 February 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Christians in Sumatra, protected by the central government and punished in the province of Aceh Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - While the central government promotes the rights of non-Muslim minorities and pays attention to the situation of Christians across the territory, in the province of Banda Aceh, in the far north ...
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  10 February 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The elections show a country divided in two, the Bishops call for peace and fraternity Quito (Agenzia Fides) - After the continuous updates of the results of the presidential elections in Ecuador held on Sunday 7 February, the Correa current candidate, Andres Arauz, seemed to have obtained 32% of the vote ...
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  10 February 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Cardinal Coutts, the first Catholic to chair the Christian Study Center Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Joseph Coutts, is the first Catholic to be unanimously elected president of the Christian Study Center in Rawalpindi, a neighboring city of Islamabad, capital of Pakistan. The Cardina ...
• 10 February 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - The Bishop of Tombura-Yambio asks the government to allow the reopening of churches "in safety" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "The benefits of public worship are enormous because most people in my diocese have little or no access to technology", says His Exc. Mgr. Edward Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio who addre ...
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  10 February 2021
  VATICAN - Children and young people, joyful and credible witnesses to the proclamation of the Gospel despite the pandemic Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Witness is the characteristic element of the baptized person's mission. The witness is the one who can tell about an event or a person as he was present at the event or knows the person in ...
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  10 February 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ayatollah al Sistani and Christians Najaf (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis, as part of his important apostolic trip to Iraq scheduled for March 5-8, will visit the city of Najaf and the Great Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, a leading figure in Shia Islam including ...