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  7 May 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - The impact of the third wave of Covid-19 on pastoral care; the missionaries close to the Burmese refugees Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - "The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 here in Thailand is extremely slow, therefore it is difficult to predict when the situation will improve", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Ferdinando Pi ...
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  7 May 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The state of siege enters into force in two eastern provinces devastated by armed conflicts Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - As of yesterday, May 6, the state of siege in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has entered into force, proclaimed on May 3 by President F� ...
• 7 May 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Mgr. Kieran E. Harrington Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 3, 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Mgr. Kieran E. Harrington, of the diocesan clergy of Brooklyn as N ...
• 7 May 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Mauricio Da Silva Jardim Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 3, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Mauricio Da Silva Jardim, of the clergy of Porto Alegre as Nati ...
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  7 May 2021
  AFRICA - Covid-19: "Africa's access to vaccines is one of the crucial points to contain the pandemic" recalls CUAMM Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa’s access to vaccines is one of the crucial points to contain the pandemic. In the face of a global emergency, the only possible response must be global. Africa cannot be excluded. We ne ...
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  7 May 2021
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Minister al Maliki: there is no Holy Land without Christians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - When you say that Palestine is the Holy Land, "you cannot talk about the Holy land without Christians", and Palestinian Authorites consider Palestinian Christians as an "integral, essential and sol ...
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  6 May 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Church is committed to assisting more than one million Venezuelan immigrants, another 500 thousand request the recognition of refugees Arequipa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Arequipa continues to provide spiritual and material assistance to thousands of families from other countries, mostly Venezuelans, who take refuge in this city in sear ...
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  6 May 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Cardinal Nzapalainga: "Need to disarm hearts" Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "A change is underway in the Central African Republic. The armed rebels who had entered the cities have left them and are in the forests. It remains to be seen whether this is real or just tempor ...
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  6 May 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Bishops: "our beloved country demands a change of course, not with violence, but with dialogue and fraternity" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - After the dismissal of the Magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Attorney General of the Republic, which occurred on May 1st, the Bishops' Confer ...
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  6 May 2021
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - The Church collaborates with the government in the reconstruction of homes for the victims of the floods Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of East Timor is collaborating with the government to repair and rebuild the houses damaged by the floods last month, caused by cyclone Seroja, which caused the death of at leas ...
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  6 May 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - Erdogan hosts religious leaders at iftar dinner Ankara (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, 5 May, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted and offered an official Iftar dinner (fast-breaking) during the month of Ramadan, in the mega presidential palace in Ankara t ...
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  6 May 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A young missionary collaborator dies in the car explosion in the Niem Mission Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A young missionary collaborator is the only victim of the explosion of a mine that exploded under the car of the Catholic Mission of Niem. "Fr. Arialdo Urbani and one of his members of the Missio ...
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  6 May 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Escalation of violence in the province of Papua: Church calls for moderation Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Tension increases in the Indonesian province of Papua (called Irian Jaya), in eastern Indonesia, plagued by separatist turmoil but also the scene of a general protest by civil society for the ab ...
• 6 May 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Appointment of the interim National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Mgr. Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 27, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed His Exc Mgr. Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco, SVD, Bishop Prelate o ...
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  5 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A Humanitarian Commission to follow the people, the proposal of the Archbishop of Cali Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Darío de Jesús Monsalve Mejía of Cali, in view of the recent clashes with the police, in which 19 people died and hundreds were injured, suggests the creation of a "Humanitarian Com ...