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  26 May 2020
  VATICAN - PMS Covid emergency Fund sends support to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, South Africa, Liberia, Botswana and Morocco Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Through the Emergency Fund established by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to support local churches in mission countries (see Fides, 6/4/2020), contributions have alr ...
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  26 May 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - The Catholic community of Bangkok close to the poorest, affected by the pandemic: "Whoever wants can leave, whoever wants can take" Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - Many parishes of the Archdiocese of Bangkok, Thailand, are at the forefront in helping and assisting the poor, severely affected by the social and economic effects of the pandemic. The Church ...
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  26 May 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The entrustment of the nation under the mantle of Mary Help of Christians amid the pandemic Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The feast of St Mary Help of Christians was an opportunity to entrust Papua New Guinea to the Lord and place it under the loving mantle of the Mother of God, in the difficult time of the pa ...
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  25 May 2020
  VATICAN - Pope Francis entrusts Pastors and faithful of the Catholic Church in China to Our Lady Help of Christians Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - After the Regina Caeli prayer from the Library of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father yesterday remembered the "World Day of Prayer for the Church in China" with these words: "Dea ...
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  25 May 2020
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Drinking water and waste management: the Church operates in the spirit of Laudato Sì Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - "After four editions of the 'Wash' project in the Jomi district, our main partner, 'National KMK', a government company for the management of housing and public services, asked us to replicate ...
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  25 May 2020
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - The PMS Covid-19 Fund in aid of the Poor Clares of Casablanca Rabat (Agenzia Fides) - The Covid-19 Emergency Fund established by the Pontifical Mission Societies guarantees the necessary support for the maintenance of the Poor Clares community of the monastery of Our Lady of Guadal ...
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  25 May 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - All diocesan structures at the service of the country due to the Covid emergency Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the health emergency in Peru is taking unexpected dimensions despite the measures established by the authorities and the extension of isolation until 30 June. In Peru there are now ...
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  25 May 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "God supersedes all the pain caused by Coronavirus and heals" says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - As the Catholic Church begins days of preparation for the feast of Pentecost, the diocese of Tombura Yambio has declared nine days of prayer for all the faithful to ask for God’s interv ...
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  25 May 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The pastoral ministry of the deaf and partially sighted in the diocese of Yopougon in the face of challenges due to Covid-19 Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "With social confinement, we have not really been able to carry out our pastoral care as we thought it appropriate, but we have always been in contact with our people", said Fr. Roland Malan Kou ...
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  25 May 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The pandemic has aggravated overcrowding and unhealthy conditions in prisons Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The National Secretariat of the Social Pastoral Care - Colombian Caritas (SNPS-CC) is following with deep concern the complex health emergency that has in particular affected the prisons in the c ...
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  25 May 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The spirit of Laudato Sì involves faithful from other religions Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "It is truly a precious service for our Earth: if we are united, there will be a change not only in the climate, but also in our relationships and this will become the principle of solution of t ...
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  23 May 2020
  AFRICA - Laudato Sì week: mission in society, in economy, in the care of the "common home" Kara (Agenzia Fides) - "To the missionary archetypes essential for missionary activity in the 20th century, that exhort the search for justice, liberation, inculturation, contextualization, the theme of the care of Creat ...
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  23 May 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops: the health crisis has highlighted the problems that the State has never faced and solved Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Ecuadorian Bishops have denounced that "it is a very serious crime" to take advantage of this painful situation to get rich fraudulently. In a declaration entitled "Crisis and hope", the Bisho ...
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  23 May 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Covid-19, the Salesians close to the last through concrete gestures of solidarity" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "The decline or cessation of economic activities and the worsening of small businesses in Peru, following the global health emergency, was a real tragedy: during this quarantine period, many famili ...
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  23 May 2020
  ASIA/CHINA - Mourning in the Episcopate: His Exc. Mgr. Andrea Jin Daoyuan Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of 20 November 2019 His Exc. Mgr. Andrea Jin Daoyuan, Bishop "without jurisdiction" of the Diocese of Changzhi/Luan, in Shanxi, in Mainland China passed away. The Prelate wa ...