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  28 June 2021
  VATICAN - Marian prayer for Myanmar organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Missionary Union, an organization of animation and formation within the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), has organized for tomorrow, June 29, at 4.30 pm (Rome time), a spe ...
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  28 June 2021
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - Art as an instrument of evangelization Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) - Art as an instrument of the apostolate to talk about Christ to those who enter the church driven by curiosity. This is the objective that led the priests of the Institute of the Incarnate Word ...
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  28 June 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Online General Assembly of the Missionary Community of Villaregia Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The V General A ssembly of the Missionary Community of Villaregia, an association founded in 1981 with headquarters in Villaregia (Rovigo), will be the first in 40 years of history to take place "r ...
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  28 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Bishops: "the Church believes in democracy, defends the democratic system, supports the electoral results" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Three weeks after the presidential elections in Peru, Pedro Castillo is already serving as virtually elected president, pending his official proclamation, delayed by the insistence of his opponent, ...
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  28 June 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - The many implications of the "Lebanese emergency" at the center of the ecclesial summit convened by Pope Francis Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Patriarchs and Heads of Churches and ecclesial communities present in Lebanon are leaving for Rome and on Wednesday, July 1 they will take part in the reflection and prayer meeting for the La ...
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  26 June 2021
  EUROPE/AUSTRIA - Missio Austria launches the "Editio Missio" series: "Every book is a motivation for the reader to become a missionary" Vienna (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies in Austria (Missio Austria) are opening new horizons. In addition to the magazine called "allewelt", which has been published for more than 60 years and which has ...
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  26 June 2021
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - The Church promotes interreligious dialogue among young people, in the spirit of "Fratelli Tutti" Singapore (Agenzia Fides) – To promote interreligious dialogue among young people: this is one of the initiatives and guidelines of the Church of Singapore, which in 2021 celebrates 200 years since the arrival of the C ...
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  26 June 2021
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - "Alongside displaced people and children, in the name of the Gospel": the commitment of the Capuchin friars in times of crisis Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "The great crisis in which Cameroon is currently involved, relating to the tensions in the English-speaking regions of the country, generates heavy effects in various sectors from school to th ...
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  26 June 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Bishop Seitz to Vice President Harris: "I welcome in the name of Christ, present in the poor who knock on our door" Texas (Agenzia Fides) - "As a pastor, I also welcome you on behalf of Christ, present in our borderland community in so many beautiful ways—present in our resilience, our spirit of compassion and service,” he said in ...
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  26 June 2021
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Council of Churches invites to join in the consecration of the region to the Holy Family: our land "attracts" wars, let’s ask the Savior for help Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Middle East has become an optimal geopolitical space to unleash "wars by proxy" that turn into a sort of "rotating slaughter" for local populations, victims of conflicts "that end in one plac ...
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  26 June 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Among poverty and instability, the prophetic voice of the Church in Congo Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - "Whether it is foreign powers (France, Belgium, USA, or others), neighboring countries (Uganda, Rwanda, etc.) or some Congolese leaders, warlords, multinationals, NGOs, or even some members of the ...
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  25 June 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - The new Constitution must recognize the right to education and the freedom of education at all levels Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - After the result of the plebiscite of October 25, 2020 (see Fides, 27/10/2020), held after a long period of crisis that Chile is going through in all fields - political, economic, social and re ...
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  25 June 2021
  AFRICA - "We must save children from violence and moral depravity": alarm in West Africa Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - In the West African area, the situation of children is increasingly worrying. Child soldiers who took part in riots and civil wars, children exploited in cocoa and cotton plantations or who work ...
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  25 June 2021
  AFRICA/MALI - "We are sure of the release of the 4 lay people, but Fr. Léon is still missing", says the parish priest of Mopti Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "The 4 parishioners have returned to Ségué, but we have not yet seen Fr. Léon Dougnon", says to Fides Fr. Amoudou Kizito Togo, parish priest of Mopti, specifying the circumstances of the relea ...
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  25 June 2021
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Bishops: "let's not be discouraged when everything around us seems to go against the family institution" Havana (Agenzia Fides) - During the recent Extraordinary Plenary Assembly of the Cuban Episcopate, held from June 14 to 18 in Havana, several themes were discussed, as reported by the note sent to Fides. The Bishops in p ...