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  28 January 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Priority is to save lives: Lent and Easter Masses to take place online in Flores Larantuka (Agenzia Fides) - "I would like to clarify that the celebration of the liturgy of 'Holy Week' and Easter Sunday has not been canceled. In fact, the celebrations will take place as the liturgy provides. We have ...
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  28 January 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Caritas Ecuador celebrates its 60th anniversary Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Social Pastoral Care/Caritas Ecuador celebrated 60 years of service in the Andean country. Parish communities, peasants, indigenous people, women, children, young people, migrants, the elderly ...
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  28 January 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The drama of Christian families who see the kidnapping and conversion of their daughters to Islam in the face of the impunity regarding this crime Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - Rafique Masih is a Pakistani Christian who, like a heartbroken father, begs the police to find his daughter, who has been kidnapped. As Fides learned, Rafique Masih, who lives in Rawalpindi, ...
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  28 January 2021
  AFRICA /TOGO - Mission and the desire to leave for distant places Sokodè (Agenzia Fides) - "If someone asks me today why I want to be a missionary, the answer is different from that at the beginning. It is not just a feeling, it is something deeper", writes Sebastião Moniz, seminaria ...
• 28 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - The testimony of a Christian kidnapped by jihadists Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – Italian missionary Father Mauro Armanino from the Society for Africa Missions lives and works in Niger. He reports on the torture suffered by a Christian farmer, originally from the same area ...
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  28 January 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "unemployment is one of the most urgent challenges if we want to overcome this crisis" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - “The situation of many companies is increasingly difficult, many people are without work, and consequently without any economic income to satisfy basic needs. Unemployment is one of the most ...
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  28 January 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Religious representatives appeal to politicians: "The people will not forgive, history will not be forgotten" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "People will not forgive. History will not be forgotten", this is the appeal that yesterday the main representatives of the Lebanese Christian and Muslim communities addressed to the politicians ...
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  27 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Bible in every home and workplace: the Church's commitment in times of suffering Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Filipino bishops encourage believers to hold fast to the Word of God, especially in times of pandemic, and to practice Bible reading in private households. In cooperation with the Bible Socie ...
• 27 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - 125 years of evangelization in the country: "A path of reconciliation, peace and fraternity" acknowledges a representative of the Head of State Grand-Bassam (Agenzia Fides) - "We have come to share with all the people of God the graces received from these zealous missionaries who brought the good news to Ivorian land. Today this good news should be a source of r ...
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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Various Church figures also affected by Covid-19 Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The spread of Covid-19 in Zambia does not stop, where three parishes of the Archdiocese of Kasama were closed for two weeks after priests and their lay collaborators tested positive for the virus ...
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  27 January 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Dam tragedy in Brumadinho two years ago: digital pilgrimage commemorates victims and calls for integral ecology Brumadinho (Agenzia Fides) - On the second anniversary of the Brumadinho tragedy, in Córrego do Feijão (see Fides, 7/2/2019) which caused hundreds of victims, from 18 to 25 January the Episcopal Region Nossa Senhora do ...
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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - The pandemic increases the vulnerability of street children: the Church offers hospitality Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) - The shelter for street children in Djibouti, organized by the country's Caritas to reduce the the threat of minors living on the streets in connection with pandemics and offers protection to 80 ...
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  27 January 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Archbishop of Concepción blesses the inhabitants of the region afflicted by the health, economic, political and social crisis from an airplane Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the serious health, economic, political and social crisis in which Chile finds itself, Monsignor Fernando Chomali, Archbishop of Concepcion, on Sunday 24 January, for about 20 minu ...
• 27 January 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore (India), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Antony Anandaray ...
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  27 January 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Denunciation of civil society: "Violations of human rights and religious freedom in the democratic life of the nation" Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to support the fundamental rights contained in the Indian Constitution in a critical phase for the democratic life of the nation, in which human rights and freedoms of expression of c ...