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  23 July 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - "The Good Shepherd never abandons his sheep": a video on the testimony of Sister Aguchita, a missionary Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "I belong to the Congregation of the Good Shepherd and the Good Shepherd never abandons his sheep": with these words the missionary Sister María Agustina Rivas, better known as "Aguchita", embarke ...
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  23 July 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A Church with God as the epicenter among the challenges of evangelization Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "There is nothing impossible when God is by our side", says Mgr. Rozario Menezes, SMM, in relation to the challenges of evangelization faced by the diocese of Lae, of which he has been bish ...
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  23 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Migrants from Latin America: regional meeting on realities, challenges. Perspectives Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The current context of the Covid-19 pandemic affecting humanity has caused an increase in the number of migrant population, which adds to the difficult economic, social and political realities th ...
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  23 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean bishops and priests on upcoming political elections: faith and ecclesial belonging are not to be exploited for electoral purposes Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - In the coming months, during the campaign in view of the political elections scheduled for October, it will be appropriate to ensure that the references to faith and ecclesial affiliations are not ...
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  22 July 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Meeting between Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara: an important step towards reconciliation Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The president of Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara will receive his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo on July 27 at the presidential palace", declared the spokesman of the Ivorian government Amadou Coulib ...
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  22 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Violence in Antioquia: religious communities ask to respect the right to peace Antioquia (Agenzia Fides) - Warn about the effects of the worsening of the armed conflict, while a territorial dispute has arisen between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colomb ...
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  22 July 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Pandemic crisis and strong impact on the economy: young people take to the streets Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha met in recent days about forty CEOs of major Thai companies and businesses to discuss the serious social consequences of the pandemic and its economic impact on ...
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  22 July 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Gestures of brotherhood between Christians and Muslims on the occasion of Eid al Adha, the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Also this year, on the occasion of Eid al Adha, the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice celebrated on July 21, gestures and initiatives of fraternal solidarity between Christians and Muslims in Egypt were ...
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  22 July 2021
  VATICAN - "Rosary for Lebanon" at the International Center for Missionary Animation Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Missionary Union and the International Center for Missionary Animation (CIAM) are organizing a "Rosary for Lebanon" on Saturday, July 24, on the feast of Saint Charbel, a Leb ...
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  21 July 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - A missionary to Fides: "the Haitian people must regain their dignity as a people" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Father Miguel de Haro, a Spanish Redemptorist missionary at the helm of a small NGO that manages several projects in Haiti, cannot return to the Caribbean island where he resides, following the e ...
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  21 July 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Participating in the political life of the nation and "choosing a leader who embodies the example of Jesus": the invitation of the Bishops Manila (Agenzia Fides) – Almost eight months before the general elections scheduled for May 2022, Mgr. Pablo Virgilio David, Bishop of Caloocan, recently elected President of the Bishops' Conference of the Philippines ...
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  21 July 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Education is the key to development: the General States of National Education and Literacy inaugurated Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Rethinking the Ivorian school environment is necessary to offer the younger generations a quality education is the goal of the General States of National Education and Literacy inaugurated on M ...
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  21 July 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Age limit for religious conversion: the Ministry of Religious Affairs opposes Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani Ministry of Religious Affairs has no intention of setting age limits for religious conversion. As Fides learns, during a recent meeting of the Parliamentary Commission for the right ...
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  21 July 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The evangelizing mission of the diocese of San Cristobal begins in the apostolic vicariate of Caroni San Cristobal (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, July 20, the decree was made public by which the Holy See, through the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, entrusts the Apostolic Vicariate of Caroní to the pastora ...
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  21 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Ecumenical meetings to relaunch the Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches present in Iraq Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - A delegation of the Chaldean Church, led by Patriarch and Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, held a series of meetings in Erbil with representatives of other Churches and ecclesial communities present i ...