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  3 April 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Aborigines: quarantine as a time for reflection accompanied by John Paul II Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Take advantage of the period of social isolation, aimed at containing the emergence of the Coronavirus in order to be inspired by the words that John Paul II addressed to the Aborigines and the i ...
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  3 April 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "From pain we build unity": call of Bishops to civil society, parties, government, in the face of the pandemic Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The families of Ecuador are experiencing moments of distress, pain, uncertainty ... for the proliferation of the Covid 19 pandemic in our country, a situation that requires urgent and adequate at ...
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  3 April 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church invites to practice charity with the most vulnerable and publishes a vademecum for priests Xalapa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Mexico has launched an urgent appeal to the population to practice charity and support the most vulnerable, because in the face of the health crisis caused by the coronavir ...
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  3 April 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 500 years since the first mass: "May our life regain meaning, desire, enthusiasm in order to put it at the service of the poorest" Río Gallegos (Agenzia Fides) - On the 500th anniversary of the first Mass in Argentine territory, in 1520, in the current city of Puerto San Julián, Santa Cruz, the Bishop of Rio Gallegos, Mgr. Jorge García Cuerva, ce ...
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  3 April 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Slums closed "they risk exploding": social effects of the fight against covid-19 Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) – There are just over a thousand cases and the dead are counted on the tip of a hand, but in South Africa Covid-19 is equally scary. "The virus - explains to Agenzia Fides Pablo Velasquez, a Sc ...
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  3 April 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Covid-19, religious minority foundations join the "Donation collection" launched by Erdogan Ankara (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish foundations headed by minority religious communities are preparing to participate in the collection of donations launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a "National Solidarity C ...
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  3 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Coronavirus: an appeal for universal solidarity from the President of the Episcopate Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Dear brothers and sisters, the pandemic due to the coronavirus puts man in front of his fragility; but then the thought of God expressed by the apostle Paul helps us: charity never goes", said ...
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  2 April 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Missionary Childhood: family prayer to stop the pandemic Leticia (Agenzia Fides) - Sister Celina Mota Sánchez, diocesan director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Apostolic Vicariate of Leticia, Colombia, explains to Fides the pastoral and humanitarian initiati ...
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  2 April 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - Religious congregations and dioceses provide homes and spaces for coronavirus patients Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - "Chile and the world are experiencing a serious health reality. The global spread of Covid-19 has caused a painful number of victims and highlighted the needs and shortcomings of the various he ...
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  2 April 2020
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - The Church makes its structures available to combat COVID-19 Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of Guinea-Bissau is ready to make its health facilities available to national authorities in the context of the fight against COVID-19. This is what emerged from yesterday's m ...
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  2 April 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Prevention is better than cure: Caritas's commitment to fight coronavirus Karachi (Agenzia Fides): "Prevention is better than cure. At this stage it is very important to share accurate and authentic information with people, to avoid the circulation of rumors and false information. Caritas Paki ...
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  2 April 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Covid-19: no case of infection, but preventive measures in the archdiocese of Blantyre Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in Blantyre, so far, there has been no case of infection verified and it would be a great grace if there were none in the future", writes to Agenzia Fides missionary Anna Tomasi of the Fr ...
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  2 April 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Lebanese San Charbel "co-patron" of a large trade fair and exhibition center in the Italian city of Milan for Covid-19 patients Milan (Agenzia Fides) - Lebanese Saint Charbel, together with the Lombard San Riccardo Pampuri, will be co-patron of the new hospital set up in record time in the building of a large trade fair and exhibition center in t ...
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  2 April 2020
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Covid-19, Catholics nurture faith with "spiritual communion" Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - As Holy Week approaches, Catholics in Cambodia continue to stay at home, given the Covid-19 emergency and, given the suspension of religious services following the epidemic, nurture their fai ...
• 2 April 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Elevation of the Apostolic Vicariate of Kontagora to Diocese and appointment of the first Bishop Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis elevated the Apostolic Vicariate of Kontangora (Nigeria) to Diocese, with the same denomination and territorial configuration, making it suffragan of the Metropolita ...