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  15 June 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - In the pandemic, the 35th Migrants' Week: "Where is your brother and sister?" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Where is your brother, your sister?" is the question that, taking inspiration from the biblical verse (cf. Gn 4,9), constitutes the theme of the 35th edition of the Week of the Migrant, which ...
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  15 June 2020
  AFRICA/CONGO - Bishops: "The health crisis becomes an opportunity for conversion" Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we are in a phase of progressive reopening", write the Bishops of the Republic of Congo in the message published at the end of their Extraordinary Assembly and sent to Agenzia Fides. ...
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  13 June 2020
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - Celebrations with the participation of the faithful resume as of June 19th Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - The solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, liturgical celebrations will be resumed in Uruguay as of Friday 19 June, with the participation of the faithful, which will take place according to ...
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  13 June 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - A missionary: "I am leaving Niger, but not Father Maccalli: the mission continues with the mark of the cross" Bomoanga (Agenzia Fides) - "I am definitely leaving Niger, but in times of coronavirus it is difficult to travel; and I carry in my heart a wealth of memories made up of questions and absences, such as that of Father Gig ...
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  13 June 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The Pontifical Mission Societies: "The proclamation of joy of the Gospel is the mission of the Church in the world" Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father’s message is a message of great encouragement, because it invites us to welcome and share the joy of the Gospel. Its message of salvation and the gift of faith bring us the gif ...
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  13 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - In times of pandemic, the Indian Church has accompanied and supported 11 million poor and vulnerable people New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Church in India has reached and assisted at least 11 million people, poor and vulnerable, in the lockdown and confinement period which started on March 25 and ...
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  13 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19: "Defending the values of the family severely tested by confinement" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "All Kenyans should not take this pandemic as an opportunity to deviate from our family values. Rather, reflect on them the fruits of marriage. A healthy family has a good relationship with God ...
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  13 June 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - More dialogue and less violence in families: the fruit of the Family Month Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "The Family Commission has been strengthened and organized to support these situations during the health emergency, and highlighted the need to start virtual training processes for more family p ...
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  13 June 2020
  VATICAN - PMS National Directors, collaborators of the Holy Spirit: the General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies celebrated online Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Spirit is the true protagonist of the mission of the Church: the Spirit helps to discern in a new and creative way how to be animators of the mission in local churches, in the fiv ...
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  12 June 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "do not confuse religious practice with any recreational activity" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The public celebration of Corpus Christi (Corpus Domini) is a very popular feast in Bolivia. In some communities this celebration is so important that the organization is not managed by the paris ...
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  12 June 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Attack on a Christian family: new episode of discrimination on a religious basis Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "Our Muslim neighbors have threatened us to leave our home within 24 hours; listening to this threat I dialed the police helpline, but before the police arrived, they started beating me and, ho ...
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  12 June 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - New Prime Minister al Kadhimi visits Mosul and the Nineveh Plain: "Christians, one of the most authentic members of the Country" Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - "Christians represent one of the most authentic components of Iraq, and it saddens us to see them leave the Country". With these words, new Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi, on behalf of th ...
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  12 June 2020
  AFRICA - Youth Lives Matter: religious and political forces united to defend young people from the thriving drug trafficking Kara (Agenzia Fides) - If on one hand the international activist movement 'Black lives matter' continues to protest against racist violence on the streets of the United States and other areas of the world, in Africa the ...
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  12 June 2020
  AFRICA/BURUNDI - Death of President Nkurunziza: Bishops' message of condolences Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides) - "We express our sincere condolences for the death of President Pierre Nkurunziza, especially to his family and the government he led. We know that there is no one else who can comfort them, ex ...
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  12 June 2020
  AFRICA - "Africa and Europe united to revive multilateral cooperation", hope the Bishops of the two continents Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "We are firmly convinced that Africa and Europe could become the engines for the revitalization of multilateral cooperation", say the Bishops of Africa and Europe in a declaration signed by Cardina ...