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  6 June 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Personal protective equipment to mission hospitals Madisi (Agenzia Fides) - "Most of the population of Malawi is engaged in informal work, and is the most exposed sector to contracting Covid 19", says to Agenzia Fides the national coordinator of the Catholic development ...
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  6 June 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Appeal for voluntary quarantine, the voice of the church to protect the population in the face of covid-19 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "I invite everyone in Nicaragua to take the voluntary national quarantine seriously. Stay at home! Help yourselves! Entrepreneurs, organize a solidarity plan to help the poorest!", with these wo ...
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  6 June 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Brothers of the Christian schools: "Next to the most vulnerable in the fight against Covid 19" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Some of our students serve their fellow citizens as first rescuers. Others are helping the elderly who are confined to the home by delivering groceries. Some universities, such as in Mexico and th ...
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  6 June 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Young people committed to environmental protection, in harmony with Laudato Sì Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - A day of awareness and action, dedicated to the care of the "common home", the protection of environment and the critical use of the mass media: this is the initiative experienced by the yo ...
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  6 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - The economic damage of Covid-19 is only the last of the plagues that hit a country already devastated by floods and locusts Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - 52 people have died in Kenya since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. A beginning that overlapped with the first rains of a long and violent season: floods, landslides that have caused over 200 ...
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  6 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Turkish press: Erdogan seeks "a formula" to reopen St. Sophia to Islamic worship Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has given instructions to change the statute of the monumental complex of Agyasofya, the ancient Byzantine Basilica currently open to the public as a simp ...
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  6 June 2020
  VATICAN - The pandemic does not stop the missionary spirit of children and young people of Missionary Childhood Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In this time of pandemic, we have joyfully found that the presence of the other, the relationship with the other, proximity and sharing is important and essential to everyone's life. We ha ...
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  5 June 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - Bishops: "we expect willingness and commitment from political authorities and social leaders in order to reach a social pact" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the health and social crisis caused by Covid-19, the Standing Committee of the Chilean Episcopate has called on the authorities and leaders of the country "to put an end to private i ...
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  5 June 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Church is concerned about the situation of armed conflicts during health emergencies Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The National Conciliation Commission (CCN), an organization convened by the Catholic Church and composed of citizens of various sectors and currents of political, social and religious thought wit ...
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  5 June 2020
  EUROPE/SWITZERLAND - European Bishops: after the pandemic let’s work all together for a recovery that leaves no one behind St. Gallen (Agenzia Fides) - The annual meeting of the presidencies of CCEE (Council of European Bishops’ Conferences) and of COMECE (Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union) was held on 3 June 2 ...
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  5 June 2020
  EUROPE/ROMANIA - PMS Director: "During the pandemic the Church had to invent other ways to keep the unity of communities alive" Bucharest (Agenzia Fides) - According to the government's provisions to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, even in Romania the Bishops’ Conference, albeit with great suffering, suspended Masses with the participation of th ...
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  5 June 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - "Hunger and fear viruses do more damage than COVID-19" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "We were in the middle of Lent, a strong moment, a moment of preparation for the Easter of the Lord, when the state of emergency was decreed, while the news that came from other parts of the plan ...
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  5 June 2020
  AFRICA - Love for the Gospel heals racism: healing man's heart to build a civilization of love Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "Only love for the Gospel can cure the disease of racism. The challenge today is to work to build a civilization of love. To carry out such a project, it will obviously be necessary to heal, with t ...
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  5 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Coronavirus increases poverty New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In India there is a fight, more than against the coronavirus, against the specter of hunger and poverty. Human rights activists and Christian volunteers made an appeal to the government to ens ...
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  5 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Covid-19, side effects: Catholic schools (already in crisis) risk collapsing Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - With a circular letter published Monday 3 June, Maronite Archbishop of Beirut, Boulos Abdel Sater, ordered the cancellation of the third installment of the fee to be paid by students of the schoo ...