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  10 July 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai's appeal for "Lebanese neutrality" moves national and regional political axes Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The recent appeal of Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai to internationally support Lebanon's position of neutrality on Middle Eastern geopolitical scenarios is beginning to arouse eloquent re ...
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  10 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Ivorians have become psychotic one month after the attack on Kafolo Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 June, 14 Ivorian soldiers died in a terrorist attack against a joint army/gendarmerie checkpoint in the Kafolo area, on the border with Burkina Faso. This was the second jihadist offensive ...
• 9 July 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Drought, floods, poverty and war: the real plagues of the nation Bagan (Agenzia Fides) - In the small town of Nyaung U, in the central plains of Myanmar, the distribution of food is an occasional fact. A truck loaded with giant cabbage stops in the neighborhood and distributes a cabba ...
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  9 July 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Churches reopen after lockdown; the Church activates a psychological and spiritual counseling program Manila (Agenzia Fides) - It is a new "starting signal" for the whole Catholic community and will be welcomed with joy and renewed spiritual enthusiasm: the leaders of the Catholic Church in the Philippines have welcomed ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan's population exceeds 43 million, almost one in four needs help Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "Food insecurity remains alarmingly high in Sudan with increased and protracted displacement, economic decline and inflation, and high food price hikes, exacerbated by the impacts of the COVID- ...
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  9 July 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Social Week 2020: "In a creative way, we must ask ourselves: how can we get out of all this?" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Looking to the future with creativity": the second day of the 2020 Social Week took place in Argentina on this theme, which is held virtually because of the pandemic. On Tuesday, July 7 Dr ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - In al Moqattam church and mosque built on the same ground, in the sign of national unity Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The inauguration date has not yet been announced, but the imposing shapes of the church and the mosque built next to each other, on the same two-acre plot, in the urban district of al Moqattam, no ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - With the death of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, "the Country loses a model for young people" says President Alassane Ouattara Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ivory Coast's Prime Minister, died on Wednesday 8 July in Abidjan. The information was broadcast live on national television, RTI 1, by Patrick Achi, Secretary General of ...
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  9 July 2020
  VATICAN - Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ecuador and Bolivia receive aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid-19 emergency Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In many dioceses of mission territories, the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, of a health, social and economic nature, have added to already dramatic situations, as in the cas ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - Covid-19 - For the Bishops: "too many people do not respect the security protocols in the demonstrations for the December vote" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We are concerned about the poor adherence to Covid-19 precautionary measures in the buildup to the country’s parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled to be held in December 2020", say ...
• 9 July 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Ricardo E. Guillén Davila Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 3, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Ricardo E. Guillén Davila, of the Archdiocesan clergy of Carac ...
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  8 July 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops: concern over the increase in violence against religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the current Covid-19 pandemic, which is posing its share of challenges in Pakistan, religious intolerance and discrimination in recent months have increased": is the complaint of the Nat ...
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  8 July 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Carmelites in support of Covid-19 patients from the diocese of Zomba Zomba (Agenzia Fides) - The hospital of the Pirimiti community of the diocese of Zomba has received three oxygen concentrators to equip the isolation ward for Covid-19 patients which was specifically created to deal with ...
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  8 July 2020
  AMERICA - Covid 19: support to Nicaraguan bishops by Central American bishops San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Central America has given strong support to Nicaraguan bishops who speak and act to protect the most vulnerable population facing the Covid-19 pandemic. In a message, the Pres ...
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  8 July 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Crimes based on religious discrimination cannot go unpunished Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "All the residents on this street are Muslims and they do not want Christians to live here: this is what the attackers said to my husband and us; since we did not succumb to those pressures, th ...