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  11 April 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Holy Thursday: Eucharistic blessing by helicopter for Cochabamba Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - Holy Thursday is the day when all over the world the Church solemnly remembers the institution of the sacrament of the Eucharist by Jesus. This year it was not possible to celebrate because o ...
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  11 April 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - From Easter the joint action of emergency begins, promoted by Bishops and Caritas Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - From Easter Sunday, April 12, the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) and Caritas Brazil launch the initiative called "Emergency solidarity action" at a national level, with the mot ...
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  11 April 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Solidarity and prayer, a site prepared for the Covid 19 emergency Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In consideration of the emergency health situation due to the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), the Permanent Secretariat of the Colombian Episcopate (SPEC) has created the web microsite https://i ...
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  10 April 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops to priests: "More than ever this Easter must help us deepen the mystery of Christ" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Paraguay addressed a message to the "brother priests" on Holy Thursday, on the solemn day "when the Lord jointly instituted the sacrament of priesthood and that of the Most Holy ...
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  10 April 2020
  VATICAN - The Good Friday Holy Land Collection postponed to 13 September Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis postponed the traditional Good Friday collection for the Holy Land to Sunday 13 September, 2020, on the eve of the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. As the statement from ...
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  9 April 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Easter in Africa, between Covid-19 and radio liturgies Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The Church is not the building, but is communion and community: the baptized in the various African countries do not lose their sense of faith in the difficulties of "broadcast Masses", due to t ...
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  9 April 2020
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Easter Triduum online does not discourage the participation of the faithful Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Masses and liturgies of the Easter Triduum are online for the Catholic community in Bangladesh, given the Covid-19 emergency: this is what the Catholic bishops of the nation reiterated, inviting t ...
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  9 April 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops to the faithful: Easter in "holy quarantine" to defeat Covid-19 Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani faithful will live Easter in "holy quarantine". "Do not fear this difficult moment that the world is going through, have faith and hope in God and spend the time of quarantine and ...
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  9 April 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist New Year and Christian Easter in confinement, due to Covid-19 Bagan (Agenzia Fides) – In Myanmar the Christian Easter in 2020 coincides with the Buddhist New Year. But the faithful of the two religious communities will not be able to celebrate the holidays with the usual rites an ...
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  9 April 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Ecumenical Message for Easter: "Do not be afraid" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of the Easter of Resurrection, which our Churches will celebrate on different dates (April 12 in the western tradition and April 19 in the eastern one), on the basis of the fraternity that ...
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  9 April 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Churches remain open in our hearts and actions", says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "We are unable to endure other wars, we have no more strength, people are destroyed, homeless. I pray to God that a solution is found as soon as possible to defeat the virus all over the ...
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  9 April 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Covid-19: Caritas Peru helps 40 thousand vulnerable families across the country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The general coordinator of "Caritas in the face of the coronavirus" campaign, reported on April 3 on national television, that the Caritas network has already assisted about 40,000 families across ...
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  9 April 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19, "the Church is close to her people in this moment of fear and despair" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Kenya is working hard to raise awareness among the population so that the measures imposed by the government to combat the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic are respected. And there ...
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  8 April 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Covid-19, "fear is disproportionate and visible", says a missionary Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church has suspended all liturgical and pastoral activities, with the participation of the people, until after Easter and has disseminated information and preventive material, i ...
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  8 April 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrinians: in the fight against Coronavirus, let us not forget the health conditions of migrants Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis dictated by the coronavirus cannot abandon the work that is being done to protect the last. The Holy Father’s appeal cannot be forgotten and, on the contrary, must be the result of a ...