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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - Special Day of prayer for the situation of the pandemic San José (Agenzia Fides) - Next Thursday, April 22, the bishops of Costa Rica invite its faithful to pray in order to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. During the Holy Mass and the Hours of Adoration, Catholics of the ...
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  19 April 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop of Asunción appeals to pharmaceutical companies: "It is not the time to make money at the expense of the sick" Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "This is not the time for speculation in order to earn money at the expense of the sick", said Archbishop Edmundo Valenzuela of Asunción in an interview with a local newspaper about the diffi ...
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  19 April 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Humanitarian situation is increasingly alarming; the Bishops "Perspectives should be given to young people to stop the war" Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - It is estimated that 11,104 people (1,452 families) who fled the city of Palma (see Fides, 27/3/2021) have been welcomed in a school in Quitunda. This was stated by the International Organization ...
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  19 April 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The era of hope: the new Burmese government of national unity, in opposition to the military junta Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "An era of fear and division ends and an era of hope begins". A time, says Salai Maung Taing San, spokesman for the newly formed "Burmese National Unity Government", in which "there will be no m ...
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  19 April 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - A "year of grace" for the diocese of Nha Trang, in the footsteps of Cardinal Van Thuan Nha Trang (Agenzia Fides) - He is a spiritual son and a successor of the former Bishop of the diocese of Nha Trang, Venerable Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, who greatly influenced his priestly life and his epi ...
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  19 April 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - After the Bishops, the Jesuits also say "No to the closure of the reception camps" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "JRS reaffirms the appeal from the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops and recommends that the Government of Kenya exert maximum forethought and caution in this particular time of uncertainty, ...
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  19 April 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Coronavirus pandemic: Election of the new Assyrian patriarch postponed due to new wave of infections Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The new wave of infections, which also affects Iraq and the Kurdistan Autonomous Region, has resulted in the election of the new Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East being postponed to a l ...
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  17 April 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Violence in the east of the country: the statistics hide innocent victims Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "These are arid numbers that hide people, innocent victims", said the Congo Peace Network, promoted by missionaries operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in a commentary on repor ...
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  17 April 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Solidarity and prayer for the victims of kidnappings Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In all ten dioceses of the country, Catholics in Haiti held special masses on Thursday April 15 to show their solidarity with the victims of kidnappings. In the parish of Saint-Pierre in ...
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  17 April 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops: "We cannot be silent when life is threatened, rights are not respected, justice is corrupt" Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "Brazil is experiencing the worsening of a serious health, economic, ethical, social and political crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which challenges us, highlighting the structural inequali ...
• 17 April 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Jorge Joaquim Pinho Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 28 January 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Jorge Joaquim Pinho, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Bei ...
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  17 April 2021
  NEWS ANALYSIS - Growing religious extremism in Asia and Church response Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - On March 28, Palm Sunday, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, witnessed the bomb attacks, leaving two bombers dead and at least 20 people injur ...
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  16 April 2021
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Barnabite Fr. Scalese on the withdrawal of US troops: "The risk is to plunge back into civil war and instability" Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "The most serious risk deriving from the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is that the country could fall back into civil war. So far, the negotiations between the government and the Taliba ...
• 16 April 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "Justice and Peace" Commission expresses concern about high unemployment rates and increasing poverty and crime Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The "Justice and Peace" Commission of the Archdiocese of Managua comments on the current situation in the country and is concerned about "high unemployment rates, poor living conditions, low wag ...
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  16 April 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Catholics who follow masses online due to the pandemic are increasing: Bishops want to a return to the churches after the end of the pandemic Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The number of Catholics watching Sunday Mass on social media and television is increasing in South Korea. According to a report published by the Catholic Bishops' Conference in South Korea, the n ...