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  23 March 2020
  VATICAN - Pope Francis invites to respond to the pandemic of the virus "with the universality of prayer, of compassion, of tenderness" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "To the pandemic caused by the virus, we want to respond with the universality of prayer, of compassion, of tenderness", invited Pope Francis at the end of the Angelus yesterday, Sunday 22 ...
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  23 March 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Syriac priest’s missing mother found dead in SE Turkey after 70 days Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The body of Şimoni Diril, the mother of Remzi Diril, a Catholic Chaldean priest in İstanbul, was discovered in a stream close to the village of Kovankaya, seventy days after the kidnapping pe ...
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  23 March 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - A Day to remember the missionary martyrs Rome (Agenzia Fides) - March 24, the day in which Mgr. Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador was assassinated in 1980, was chosen 28 years ago by the then Missionary Youth Movement of the Pontifical Mission So ...
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  23 March 2020
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Bishops in the wake of Covid-19: "Let us look at the Cross of Christ" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - "God allows calamities and tribulations, but also gives us the strength to overcome them. In this Lenten period of penance and conversion, let us joyfully overcome these sacrifices and sufferings ...
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  23 March 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Covid-19: fears of a catastrophe in prisons if no action is taken in time Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Do not take advantage of the emergency linked to the coronavirus to commit abuse against the population. This is the invitation of the Congolese NGO for the defense of human rights Nouvelle Dyn ...
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  23 March 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - No Eucharistic celebration in the parishes of Yopougon because of Covid-19 Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "I ask parishioners not to give in to discouragement, not to be afraid, to keep hope on this Sunday of joy. I ask them to always remain vigilant and to remain in prayer", said Fr. Alain Lézou, ...
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  23 March 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - Mgr. Dumas: "Stay at home, make every home become a domestic Church" Nippes (Agenzia Fides) - In the face of the health emergency involving more and more all the countries of the world, Mgr. Pierre-André Dumas, Bishop of the diocese of Anse-à-Veau et Miragoâne, in Haiti, has sent the m ...
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  21 March 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Concerns about the collapse of healthcare facilities after the first case of COVID-19 Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "Yesterday evening a big rain came to 'wash' the dreaded virus that officially contaminated a person who traveled through various Countries", reports to Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of th ...
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  21 March 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Church and government together in the face of the Covid-19 health emergency Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Full collaboration to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic together: this is what the president of the Argentine Bishops’ Conference, Mgr. Óscar Vicente Ojea Quintana, bishop of the diocese of S ...
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  21 March 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The Church in the front line to help the victims of human trafficking Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The fight against human trafficking was at the center of the Regional Conference on Human Trafficking at the Arrupe Jesuit University in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Conference was organise ...
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  21 March 2020
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Jesuits: "Need to start a deep and sincere dialogue for the good of the Syrian people" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "The Syrian population lives in an uncertain and tiring condition, which is becoming unsustainable for the weakest, while there is a significant decrease of the Christian communities". This is wh ...
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  21 March 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Central Africa: what lies behind interreligious violence Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - The war continues in the Central African Republic. It is not a real civil conflict nor a classic clash among armies. It is widespread violence that undermines the stability of the Country and sev ...
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  20 March 2020
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Spiritual exercises via Skype in Central Asia: Bishops united in communion of prayer Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - The first cases of Covid-19, and the related measures for the containment of the virus, have also reached Central Asia, causing the cancellation of the spiritual exercises of the Bishops of the ...
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  20 March 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The church suspends all activities, but for the authorities elections will be held La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Bolivia has decided to suspend liturgies and pastoral activities as a primary measure in the face of the international Coronavirus crisis. The Bolivian Bishops' Conference ...
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  20 March 2020
  AMERICA/CANADA - Missionary disciples instruments of mercy: First Regional Congress on Divine Mercy Vancouver (Agenzia Fides) - The devotion of Divine Mercy as family devotion in the 21st century, its meaning in the Catholic Church today and its role in the life and mission of the laity, are the topics that will be add ...