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  20 April 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops: solidarity with other countries affected by coronavirus Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Solidarity, spiritual closeness and prayers for the dramatic situation underway due to the terrible consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic: this is what the Bishops of Paraguay express in a lett ...
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  20 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - National Day of Prisoners: appeal by a priest for greater humanization of prisons Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Ivory Coast, through the Episcopal Commission for Social Pastoral, has been celebrating the national day of prisoners every year since 2007 on the feast of the Divine Merc ...
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  20 April 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Oil pipeline breakage: disaster for populations and territory Aguarico (Agenzia Fides) - An ecological disaster that affects local populations and the territory: Mgr. José Adalberto Jiménez Mendoza, bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aguarico (Ecuador), has reported with concer ...
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  20 April 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Covid-19: "We entrust ourselves to Divine Providence", writes a missionary from the State of Roraima Caracarai (Agenzia Fides) - Pastoral activities in the Brazilian state of Roraima, including the celebration of mass, have been suspended since March 22 to avoid the spread of the virus. Civil authorities have ordered pr ...
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  20 April 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - COVID-19: Nigerian Caritas distributes food to the poor blocked at home Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria (CCFN) donated food materials to over 500 households in Durumi community and its surroundings in Abuja (federal capital of Nigeria), as part of measures ...
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  20 April 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - "Divine mercy" Sunday spent for the poorest, blocked by the coronavirus emergency Bhubaneswar, (Agenzia Fides) - Bishops and Catholic faithful in the State of Orissa (Odisha) lived the Sunday of Divine Mercy, April 19, by dedicating themselves to the marginalized, the "discarded", migrants and destitu ...
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  20 April 2020
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The response to Covid-19: Bishop and priests close to people in villages Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "Our heart is turned and entrusted to Our Lady of Smiles, in the middle of the rice fields of Cambodia, while the suspension of any form of activity for the spread of coronavirus is underway" ...
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  18 April 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The suffering of Christian ethnic minorities: clashes and victims in civil conflicts Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In the last month over 50 civilians have been killed in conflicts between autonomists and the central State in various regions of Myanmar, especially in the federated States of Chin and Rakhine. ...
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  18 April 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Covid-19: religious minorities discriminated against in the distribution of food Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The "Saylani Welfare International Trust" organization has acted by discriminating religious minorities in the distribution of food, for the Covid-19 emergency, in the Sindh region. This was con ...
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  18 April 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Hungerless Families": Caritas campaign against Covid-19 continues Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Mexico continues and relaunches the "Hungerless Families" campaign launched on Easter Sunday. The campaign aims to collect food to feed families who, due to the crisis caused by Covi ...
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  18 April 2020
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - A Church fund to fight Covid-19; the solidarity of the Bishops of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are close to the brothers and sisters who contracted and suffer because of the Coronavirus disease", say the Catholic Bishops of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the Easter message signed by Mg ...
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  18 April 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Appeal to global ceasefire: violence carried out by jihadist groups continues Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The ceasefire implored by Pope Francis here in Niger is almost completely unheard: jihadist terrorism continues to bloody this land and claim hundreds of victims. Even the situation at the borde ...
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  18 April 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Orthodox Easter, Covid-19 does not extinguish the "Sacred Fire" rite in the Holy Sepulcher Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The prohibition to hold religious celebrations and gatherings in recent weeks by the Israeli government to curb the spread of the epidemic is also affecting the Holy Week rites of the Eastern ...
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  17 April 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - 19 months after the kidnapping of Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli the hope for his release remains alive Crema (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a great surprise and you can imagine my joy: after a silence of about 18 months, for the first time we had the certainty of what we have always believed and hoped," writes Fr. Walter Macca ...
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  17 April 2020
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Human rights do not disappear nor lost when crossing borders: hundreds of migrants stranded in Honduras Choluteca (Agenzia Fides) - "About 300 people originally from Haiti, Cuba and Africa (mostly Haitians) have already overcrowded the rooms they had rented in Choluteca, Honduras for more than 24 days", this is how the let ...