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  10 May 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Sisters of Shire call for attention to be kept high on the serious humanitarian situation Shire (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of refugees from neighboring areas have fled the fury of the fighting in recent months. They gather in the city's state schools, where they are monitored and assisted by some internation ...
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  10 May 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Reconciliation between Muslim and Christian hospital staff Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace and reconciliation are always possible. Blessed are the peacemakers. We thank God that the tensions between the Christian and Muslim staff of the Punjab Mental Health Institute have become ...
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  10 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - New appeals for an end to violence and respect for life and human rights Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "I would like to express my concern for the tensions and violent clashes in Colombia, which have caused deaths and injuries. There are many Colombians here; let us pray for your homeland", Pope F ...
• 10 May 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Appointment of the Bishop of Dedza, Mgr. Peter Chifukwa Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 8, the Holy Father appointed Rev. Peter Chifukwa, of the clergy of Dedza, currently Judicial Vicar and Rector of the St. Kizito minor Seminary as Bishop of the Diocese of Dedza (Mala ...
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  10 May 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - The Archbishop of Delhi: "Faith is alive in the midst of the pandemic" and Christian communities help patients New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "Only faith can console and make people go forward in the current tragedy", says the Archbishop of Delhi, Mgr. Anil Couto to Agenzia Fides, stating that "we live this terrible suffering with f ...
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  10 May 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - After the attack on Palma: the displaced are lacking essentials Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - After the attack on the city of Palma on March 24 (see Fides 27/4/2021), the already grave humanitarian situation in the province of Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique has worsened. Before the a ...
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  10 May 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Death sentence carried out against the murderer of Bishop Epiphanios Damanhur (Agenzia Fides) - In Damanhur Prison, the death penalty was carried out against Wael Saad Tawadros, the former Coptic Orthodox monk convicted of murdering Bishop Epiphanios. He was found dead on 29 July 2018 in ...
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  8 May 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Music to shorten distances: the World Youth Orchestra for children Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – To promote the universal language of music to fill the educational and social void caused by the health and economic crisis, to help reduce the distance between people. With this objective in m ...
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  8 May 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Una parrocchia diventa centro di accoglienza per gli sfollati interni AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A parish becomes a reception center for internally displaced persons Bourzanga (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation of the internally displaced persons in the parish of Bourzanga is of absolute emergen ...
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  8 May 2021
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - An oratory, a place of knowledge and proclamation of the Gospel Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) - The oratory as a place of encounter, knowledge, play, human relationships, positive socialization, joy and proclamation of the Gospel. With this spirit, the priests of the Institute of the Inc ...
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  8 May 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "I am recovering, in a few days I'll be back on track!" says Fr. Arialdo Urbani, the missionary wounded by a mine Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "I am recovering, I think that in a few days I will be ready to go back to work", says Fr. Arialdo Urbani, the Betharramite missionary (as the members of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of J ...
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  8 May 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "A national conference immediately to address the ungovernability of the Country" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We must be united in the fight for our common destiny as a people. It must be clearly stated to the Federal Government that if they continue to ignore the constructive criticisms and recommendati ...
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  7 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Day of prayer "for the reconciliation of the Colombian people, justice and fraternal solidarity" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian Church has convened a day of prayer for today, Friday May 7, in order to "ask for the reconciliation of the Colombian people, justice and fraternal solidarity". The Latin American C ...
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  7 May 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians observe a special National Day of fasting and prayer for the nation affected by the pandemic New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While the Catholic Church in India loses another Bishop due to Covid-19, recording the death of 65-year-old Mgr. Basil Bhuriya Bishop of Jabhua, in Madhya Pradesh (after the death of Antony An ...
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  7 May 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops on the "morning after pill": enough with policies contrary to the values of the nation San José (Agenzia Fides) - "In this period in which the health authorities and the whole country are waging a tough battle for life against the pandemic caused by Covid 19, the Costa Rican National Social Service surpri ...