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  18 June 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Violence, pandemic, foreign interference: the nation without peace Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - An armed group has taken up arms again in the Central African Republic and is bringing back tension in the Bozoum region in the west of the Country. The emergency is added to the spread of the co ...
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  18 June 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Attacks on farmers are likely to lead us to hunger" denounces the Bishop of Awka Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Attacks by herdsmen against farmers are a severe threat capable of increasing hunger in the country" said His Exc. Mgr. Paulinus Chukwuemeka Ezeokafor, Bishop of Awka. "We all know the economic i ...
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  17 June 2020
  AMERICA/CANADA - The Bishops praise the non-prescription proposal for crimes of abuse Quebec (Agenzia Fides) - The Minister of Justice of Quebec, Sonia LeBel, has recently presented a bill to modify the civil code and, in particular, to ensure that civil actions in the field of sexual violence, child abus ...
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  17 June 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "We are all Amazon": Mgr. Ojea calls for anti-Covid emergency measures also for the inhabitants of the Amazon Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of San Isidro and president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Mgr. Oscar Vicente Ojea, participated in a virtual meeting in which, together with the specialists, talked abou ...
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  17 June 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Pier Luigi Maccalli and the "company of the apostles" Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - "Among the lovers of the first apostolic experience, I love remembering Father Pier Luigi Maccalli, my confrere and friend of the Society of African Missions" – writes Father Bruno Semplicio, SM ...
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  17 June 2020
  VATICAN - "The value of martyrdom as an element of Christian life in El Salvador": towards the beatification of the missionary Cosma Spessotto Zacatecoluca (Agenzia Fides) - "I ask the Lord to give me the strength at the right time to defend the rights of Christ and the Church. To die a martyr would be a grace that I do not deserve. Washing all my sins, defects ...
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  17 June 2020
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo: the new sanctions against Syrian people are a "diabolical act" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "Now in Aleppo everyone says: we were better off under the bombs". This is how Joseph Tobji, Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo, photographs the feelings among the population of the Syrian metropolis, ...
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  17 June 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Young Christian volunteers working in hospitals, on the front line against the pandemic Yangon (Agenzia Fide) - These young people are "the beautiful face of the nation", "are an example for everyone and testify that there is hope for the future". Thus the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Myanmar (CBCM) and ...
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  17 June 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "An institutional crisis must be avoided, the date of the general elections must be respected" urge the Bishops Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Burkina Faso have invited the government of Burkina Faso to hold the elections on time and to commit themselves to improving the security situation in the Country. Vast areas ...
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  17 June 2020
  AFRICA/ESWANTINI - Covid-19: "Let us look to the future with hope, we will be called to be missionaries in new ways", says the Bishop of Manzini Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - "Announcing this special time of grace for our diocese I never thought we would face months of it in a full or partial lock-down. We planned special events thinking everything would be as usual. ...
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  16 June 2020
  ASIA - Pandemic and children's rights: thousands of children pushed onto the labor market Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "Children have the right to be protected from all forms of discrimination, exploitation and violence. The impact of Covid-19 containment measures in various Asian countries, the closure of schoo ...
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  16 June 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - A missionary: on the outskirts of Luanda the poorest are always the most generous Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in the great northern suburbs of Luanda, Kikolo area, the cases of infected by Covid-19 are many more than those declared by the government", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Renzo Adorni, pries ...
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  16 June 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - "Give them some food" (Mt 14,16): initiative to feed 10,000 people a day Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the health emergency that we are experiencing for Covid-19, the economic crisis is seriously affecting the whole world and Peru is no stranger to this reality. Poverty in the country worsens ...
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  16 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople: calls for opening Hagia Sophia to Muslims and Christians prayers Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople Sahak Mashalian has endorsed the idea of restoring Hagia Sophia’s status as a place of worship, today visited by tourists as a simple monument after b ...
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  16 June 2020
  VATICAN - New aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency in Africa, Asia and America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Fund established by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to support the Churches of mission countries in the face of the Covid-19 emergency (see Fides, 6/4/2 ...