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  19 January 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Digital Plenary Assembly of the bishops: restructuring of CELAM, health crisis and current situation are on the agenda Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The 117th Plenary Assembly of the Bishops of Peru opened yesterday, Monday 18 January. The 54 Bishops of the 46 ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the country will meet in virtual form until next Thur ...
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  19 January 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - A new home for street women and children in Calcutta Calcutta (Agenzia Fides) - "Taking care, helping and serving others without distinction of caste or religion is the way to manifest God's love for human beings": with these words, released to Agenzia Fides, Sister Lucy K ...
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  19 January 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Another pandemic is added to the Covid-19 pandemic: irrational violence that does not stop Pasto (Agenzia Fides) - "The pain for the more than 1,000 dead due to the Covid-19 pandemic in our region is reinforced by the deaths that continue due to the other pandemic, namely irrational violence": this is what dec ...
• 19 January 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Appeal of the Episcopate against war and divisions in the presence of a people suffering from unspeakable misery Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "The exacerbated division of the political class and the lack of patriotism have left the country at the mercy of predators and mercenaries of all kinds, subsidized in arms and equipment. The war ...
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  19 January 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Year of Reflection for the Local Church of Jakarta Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "Reflection is the spiritual tool to strengthen personal integrity and faith, in a time marked by suffering and difficulties": with these words Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo, Archbishop of Jakarta, ...
• 19 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Catholic Church mourns loss of Archbishop Abel Gabuza to Covid-19 Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - His Exc. Mgr. Abel Gabuza, Coadjutor Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Durban, failed to overcome the crisis due to Covid-19. Archbishop Gabuza, 65, died at Hillcrest Hospital on Sunday 17 J ...
• 19 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 October, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Jeremiah Joseph Browne, of the diocesan clergy of Port Elizab ...
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  19 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Christian migration minister rejects criticism of the closure of the refugee camps Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - In Iraq, efforts are being made to close refugee camps and return internally displaced people to their respective regions of origin. However, the positive results already announced by the Iraqi ...
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  18 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appeal of the Bishops of the Visayas: stop the killings of indigenous peoples Capiz (Agenzia Fides) - "An in-depth investigation by an independent body aimed at explaining what really happened on December 30, 2020; the cessation of military intervention on indigenous communities so that our Tumand ...
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  18 January 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Archbishop of San Salvador: after 29 years the peace agreements have yet to be fulfilled and injustice continues San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - In his usual Sunday meeting with journalists, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mgr. José Luis Escobar Alas, yesterday dwelt as a first point, on the request made to Congress for an amendmen ...
• 18 January 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Xuân Lôc, Viêt Nam Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 16, 2021, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Xuân Lôc, Viêt Nam, presented by Bishop Joseph Đình Đúc Đao. He is succeeded ...
• 18 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A Catholic priest brutally killed Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. John Gbakaan, parish priest of the Saint Anthony Church in Gulu, in the diocese of Minna, was kidnapped and murdered on January 15 along the road from Lambata to Lapai in the state of Niger. T ...
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  18 January 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Second wave of the coronavirus pandemic: Bishops of Amazonas and Roraima urgently ask for help Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, which also affects the Brazilian state of Amazonas and in particular Manaus, the Norte 1 region of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB), w ...
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  18 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The love of the Child Jesus, source of love for the poor in times of pandemic Cebu (Agenzia Fides) - Devotees of the Holy Child Jesus are called to "reach out and love the poor , in the suburbs, in the midst of the pandemic": this is the exhortation addressed to the faithful by Archbishop Jose Pal ...
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  18 January 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Blossoming of vocations in the midst of a pandemic, the joy of being missionaries Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "In a global context made worse by the Coronavirus pandemic, on the island of Flores, there is no lack of positive news: In the coming months, in fact, new priestly ordinations are planned, whic ...