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  29 July 2021
  VATICAN - Appointment of the new Rector of the Pontifical Urban College: Fr. Armando Nugnes Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, has appointed Fr. Armando Nugnes, of the clergy of the Diocese of Aversa as Rector of the Pont ...
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  28 July 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Bishops' appeal to President Duterte: "Unity must be restored in the nation" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - President Rodrigo Duterte should use the remaining time of his presidential term (elections are scheduled for May 2022) to unite the nation and restore dignity to public services, in favor of cit ...
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  28 July 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Support for the poor and the sick: the Church deeply involved in charity actions for the pandemic Ho Chi Minh City. (Agenzia Fides) - While Vietnam, considered a country that had successfully fought the pandemic, is affected by the fourth wave, in particular by the Delta variant of Covid-19, the dioceses of the Catho ...
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  28 July 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops for the Bicentenary: defend democratic institutions, build peace and integral human development, reject all forms of violence Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Peru will celebrate the bicentenary of its independence on July 28 and 29. A massive deployment of police across the country, especially in places that will host official events, will help ensure p ...
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  28 July 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - 'Father, we want a brick church': the millennial dreams of a believing and suffering people have come true Naandi (Agenzia Fides) - "When I arrived in South Sudan, the Naandi mission in which I am located, near the border of South Sudan with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, had only a single brick church, totally ...
• 28 July 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Increasing violence in North Kivu against civilians, also committed by soldiers and police Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Kidnappings, arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions, as well as rape and sexual violence, torture. These are crimes committed against the person in the Territory of Rutshuru, in the provinc ...
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  28 July 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A day of silence and prayer for peace and reconciliation for Nicaraguans on July 31 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, urged the faithful to live a "Day of silence and prayer" on Saturday July 31, the date that commemorates the first anniversary of the act o ...
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  28 July 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Beit Sahour, work has begun to build a reception center in the "Shepherds' Field" Beit Sahour (Agenzia Fides) - The "Shepherds' Field", included in the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, is one of the places most dear to the Christian memory of the birth of Jesus. In that locality, according to traditio ...
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  27 July 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 36 years after the murder of Father Ramin: by following his example, we renew our commitment to the poor and creation Ji-Paraná (Agenzia Fides) - Father Ezechiele Ramin, a Comboni missionary (MCCJ), from Padua (Italy), arrived in Brazil in 1983, in the diocese of Ji Paraná, which includes the central part of the State of Rondônia and ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - There are 145 cases of violence against Christians in the first half of 2021: "Anti-conversion laws" are worrying New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In the first half of 2021 (from January to June) 145 cases of violence against Christians in India were documented: as reported in a note sent to Agenzia Fides by the Commission for Religious ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - State of emergency extended due to Coronavirus: between uncertainty and worry, missionaries do not stop Lamphun (Agenzia Fides) - "In the province many villages have been completely closed. The cathedral is closed in Chiangmai as well as all schools. There was also an outbreak in the interdiocesan seminary, 11 seminarians ...
• 27 July 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Women pray that the sun never goes down, because jihadists attack during the night" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The women of the community pray that the sun, the light, remain as long as possible because now they are afraid of darkness", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society ...
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  27 July 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops: "the sudden dismissal of prosecutor Sandoval, illegal and arbitrary, has caused irreparable damage to the country" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "The sudden dismissal of prosecutor Sandoval, according to authoritative men and women of law, was illegal and arbitrary. We embrace the protest of citizens in warning that this fact indi ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/JAPAN - During the Olympic Games marked by the pandemic, the urgency is "to take care of oneself and others" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "The most widespread attitude among the population of Japan was the request to cancel or postpone the Olympics, due to the pandemic, for fear of an increase in infections. The situation we are exp ...
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  27 July 2021
  AFRICA/TUNISIA: The President suspends the government and takes all powers. Archbishop Antoniazzi: "the population supports him" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed to suspend the legislature and assume full powers "was welcomed with relief by the majority of the population, exhausted by a situation that seemed ...