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  3 June 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - PMS Solidarity Fund: "In this period people need the Word, but also bread to survive" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Angola registered two first cases of COVID-19 in March, and as a result, civil and religious authorities took appropriate measures to avoid the risk of community infection, since the registered ...
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  3 June 2020
  EUROPE/FRANCE - A PMS website to get to know Pauline Jaricot, who invented "the first missionary social network" Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - On May 26, Pope Francis authorized the publication of the decree recognizing the miracle attributed to the venerable Pauline Jaricot (1799-1862), thus opening the way for her beatification (see Fid ...
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  3 June 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Interreligious coexistence and solidarity: the songs of Catholics are viral on social media Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Two songs sung by Catholic nuns, priests and lay people, in the most densely inhabited Muslim country on the planet, have got the audience of social media heated on two very topical matters: the ...
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  3 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Economic crisis, the Maronite Patriarchate and the Jesuit University promote agricultural training projects Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The serious economic crisis that Lebanon has gone through, further aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemic, has seen the spontaneous initiatives of people multiply, who for the first time start to ...
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  3 June 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The greatest number of priests infected by Covid-19 in the states of Pará and Amapá Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission of Priests (CNP), linked to the Bishops’ Conference of Brazil (CNBB), has published the number of priests who have been affected by Covid-19 in Brazil. The study, sent ...
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  2 June 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Solidarity Gesture": food distribution to 24,000 families Margarita (Agenzia Fides) - The "Solidarity Gesture" campaign has managed to distribute food aid to 24 thousand families in many cities of the country. In the area of Margerita and Coche island in Venezuela alone, food ...
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  2 June 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - If the virus knows no boundaries: the caravan toward the USA does not stop Mexicali (Agenzia Fides) – The southern border of California, in the United States, is where many citizens of the United States arrive who live in Mexico for different reasons. Retirees who live alone or with their fam ...
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  2 June 2020
  VATICAN - Other aid from the PSM Fund for the Covid emergency in Sao Tomé and Principe, Sierra Leone, Chad and Guinea Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Fund set up by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to support the Churches of mission countries facing the Covid-19 pandemic (see Fides, 6/4/2020), continue ...
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  2 June 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Today in Cameroon apart from known, reported or detected cases, one does not have an idea or the exact proportion of the development of COVID-19", says a priest Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "Although all ten regions of the Country are affected, there are very different levels of contagion, with some epicenters from which the contagions spread in the rest of Cameroon. These epicent ...
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  2 June 2020
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Peaceful dissent and prayer for the death of George Floyd in El Paso El Paso (Agenzia Fides) - In an atmosphere of violence and generalized tension for the many demonstrations in different places in the United States for the death of George Floyd, in El Paso the Catholic faithful tried to ...
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  2 June 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Unemployment and new poverty: lockdown due to the pandemic has a serious economic and social impact Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The pandemic and the lockdown imposed to contain Covid-19 have a serious impact on millions of destitute, marginalized or people who survive thanks to a daily wage in the Philippines. According t ...
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  2 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Covid-19, ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: governments cannot impose rules on the celebration of the Eucharist Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Orthodox Churches have followed the dispositions imposed by the civil authorities of their respective Countries to combat the coronavirus pandemic, closing the churches and celebrating the ...
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  2 June 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Covid-19 and election campaign for the presidential elections: tensions increase Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "Tension due to the election campaign and serious episodes of violence are being registered", writes to Agenzia Fides the missionary, Anna Tomasi of the Franciscan Auxiliary Lay Missionaries of ...
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  2 June 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - In time of Coronavirus, the commitment of the Blessed Scalabrini is always present, at the forefront of calamities Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Today more than ever, in times of pandemic, the commitment of Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, who was at the forefront of those calamities, remembered as the protagonist of a daily, generous ...
• 1 June 2020
  AFRICA/CONGO - Erection of the Ecclesiastical Province of Owando, and appointment of first metropolitan Archbishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 30 May 2020, the Holy Father erected the Ecclesiastical Province of Owando, Republic of the Congo, elevating it to a Metropolitan Church; and assigning as suffragan Churches the Dioceses ...