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  15 April 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The church denounces the violence of groups and asks for a truce Quibdò (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto, bishop of the diocese of Quibdó, denounced the increase in conflicts in the Colombian Pacific area. The situation, according to the Bishops of this Colombian region ...
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  15 April 2020
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The PMS for the Covid 19 emergency fund: "the missionaries are already ringing the alarm bell" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain adhere to the request of the Holy Father to create an international emergency fund to help mission territories affected by this pandemic (see Fides ...
• 15 April 2020
  ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Fukuoka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 April, 2020 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Josep Maria Abella Batlle, C.M.F., currently Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Osaka, as Bishop of the Diocese of Fukuoka (Jap ...
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  15 April 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Cardinal Ouédraogo: "I hope for a wave of international solidarity to fight the coronavirus" Ouagadougou (Agenzi Fides) - "I would like from the bottom of my heart as a pastor to cry out for support in favor of a profound impetus of solidarity, both locally, regionally and internationally for patients with Covid ...
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  15 April 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "Plenary Council" assembly of the Church has been postponed due to Covid-19: the "listening and discernment" phase continues Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a precious moment of gathering, reflection, planning of the future: the "Plenary Council", defined by the organizers as "the highest form of assembly of the Australian local Churches s ...
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  15 April 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Covid-19 is a serious reality. The future belongs only to the Risen Christ", writes a missionary Weru (Agenzia Fides) - "The awareness that the disease was serious and pandemic has now become reality", writes from Kenya Don Vittorio Grigoletto, fidei donum priest on a mission in Weru, in the dicoesi of Nyahururu, es ...
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  15 April 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Easter among closed churches, "condoned" places of worship and rumors of thwarted attacks Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian government has accepted the indications of the follow-up committee which in recent days had certified the full compliance of other 74 churches and ecclesiastical buildings with the ru ...
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  15 April 2020
  ASIA - Appeal for global ceasefire for Covid-19 does not breach in Southeast Asia Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The internal conflicts in Southeast Asia do not stop. Eight civilians were killed on April 13 in clashes between government forces and the Arakan Army in a village in the Burmese State of Rakhine ...
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  15 April 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Easter lived by Christians and non-Christians Shillong (Agenzia Fides) - "Easter 2020 was significantly different from previous years, especially in northeastern India, where four of the seven states have a considerable Christian population. While the lockdown at a ...
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  14 April 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Covid 19: "the word of God is carried out by concrete gestures of solidarity", underlines Mgr. Garcia San Justo (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of San Justo, Mgr. Eduardo García, underlined the role of the Church in the context of the health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, through work in canteens and in assisti ...
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  14 April 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - Prevention, prayer and sharing: the Church in the face of Covid-19 Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - "Our pastoral behavior in this pandemic period can be summed up in four words: pevention, prayer, pastoral life, sharing": this is what Mgr. Barrigah-Bènissan, Archbishop of Lomè says to Agenzia ...
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  14 April 2020
  ASIA/BAHRAIN - Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia, Bishop Camillo Ballin passes away, missionary in the lands of Islam Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Beloved Bishop Camillo Ballin passed away in Rome". This is how the Bahraini media reported the death of Combonian Camillo Ballin, Apostolic Vicar of northern Arabia, who died of cancer at almost ...
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  14 April 2020
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Easter during the coronavirus emergency, in the name of forgiveness and martyrs Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "The lockdown in which we live today is a test but also an opportunity to rediscover and strengthen our faith in God. We miss the faithful very much, while we celebrated Easter Mass in the absen ...
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  13 April 2020
  AMERICA - At Easter the supplication to the Virgin of Guadalupe to grant the world health and the end of the pandemic Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - On Easter Sunday, April 12, in the Shrine dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, "Empress of America", the "Act of consecration to the Most Holy Virgin Mary took place, under the title of Our L ...
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  13 April 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - In the face of the pandemic, migrants "continue to be invisible in social and humanitarian policies" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pastoral Care of Human Mobility of the Episcopal Conferences of Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, published a document on the migration situation in these times of coronavirus, sent to Fid ...