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  17 July 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "The most excruciating poverty coexists with the most inconceivable wealth": Social Week 2021 Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Social Week 2021 has ended in Argentina, an event that traditionally involves the main protagonists of the country's business world along with the realities of the Catholic world, particula ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - National prayer for the end of the pandemic Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We behave in the best possible way, respecting the protocols, and for the rest we entrust ourselves to God who always has His unfathomable plans, which human beings do not understand. We believ ...
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  17 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - The mission of the Friars Minor in the world: "Living the Gospel in fraternal communion, building bridges of dialogue among all peoples" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to identify concrete ways ways of 'going out' on mission, responding with joy to the Lord who calls us to conversion, bearing witness to the Gospel according to the authentic Franc ...
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  17 July 2021
  AFRICA/eSWATINI - The Bishop of Manzini: "it is the most serious crisis that can be remembered, no one should expect quick responses" Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - The small African state of eSwatini, known until 2018 as Swaziland, is located in southern Africa, on the eastern flank of the Dragons Mountains, and borders Mozambique to the east and South Afr ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: elections at risk of boycott, even Christians could desert the polls Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The risk of fraud and the experience of having been "robbed" of the quota of parliamentary seats reserved by the electoral system for candidates from Christian communities will push many Christi ...
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  16 July 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Witnesses of hope, faith, solidarity, service: Brazilian nuns in Haiti since 2010 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - To thank all the missionaries sent to Haiti, as part of the Nazaré intercongregational solidarity missionary project that unites the Church of Brazil with that of Haiti, a Eucharist will be ce ...
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  16 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Puerto Rican Briseida Cotto Ayala is the new president of the Missionary Community of Villaregia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Briseida Cotto Ayala, Puerto Rican, 52, is the third president elected to lead the Missionary Community of Villaregia, a community made up of consecrated laity, priests, married couples and individ ...
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  16 July 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Stop the conflict and pave the way for dialogue and reconciliation: joint appeal by religious leaders Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "It is urgent to bring to light what has happened over the years between the communities of Zande and Balanda which has created inequality, fear, interest, injustice and lack of the rule ...
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  16 July 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Demonstrations of the Burmese diaspora around the world: recognition of the Government of national unity is being asked Venice (Agenzia Fides) - The Burmese diaspora and those who support civil resistance to the military junta met in various places on the planet on the weekend of July 17 and 18 to honor the many generations who died in M ...
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  16 July 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - A YouTube channel for the Church in Korea Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - A Youtube channel for the Catholic Church in Korea: this is the initiative launched by the "Catholic Peace Broadcasting Corporation" (CPBC) in order to be present on the network and offer the fait ...
• 16 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Delhi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed rev. Deepak Valerian Tauro, of the clergy of Muzaffarpur, former Rector of St. Albert's College in Ranchi as auxiliary bishop of the Metropolitan Archd ...
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  16 July 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Prime Minister-designate Hariri resigns from office. Father Zgheib: crisis with uncertain outcome Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - With Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri's renunciation to form a new government "a new stage of the Lebanese crisis opens. The outcome appears uncertain: new ways out may be opened, or the coun ...
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  15 July 2021
  AFRICA/MALI - The priest who was kidnapped on June 21 has been released Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Léon Dougnon, the priest who was kidnapped on June 21 along with four lay people from Ségué, was released on the afternoon of July 13, in Bandiagara, where he is still recovering from th ...
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  15 July 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Flores Island: Despite initial restrictions, the Camillians continue their initiatives Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "Churches and schools will remain closed while air and sea travel have been suspended until at least July 21st. The virus now seems to have penetrated our island, where the restrictions are beg ...
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  15 July 2021
  AFRICA/ESWATINI - In a worrying social and economic situation, the Churches strive to dialogue with everyone Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - Violence continues in the small Southern African state of eSwatini. The murder of Thabani Nkomonye, a young law student, at the hands of the police last May, sparked protests from thousands of c ...