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  27 March 2021
  ASIA/SAUDI ARABIA - African migrants in detention centers: victims of exploitation and exposed to Covid London (Agenzia Fides) - In Saudi Arabia, the coronavirus pandemic and the economic difficulties caused by the collapse of the oil price have affected migrant workers, especially those from Africa. In the midst of the he ...
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  27 March 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - Life imprisonment for former intelligence chiefs for the murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The trial for complicity in the murder of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, a leading figure in the local Armenian community, killed by a hitman in 2007 in central Istanbul, in front of the headq ...
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  27 March 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Catholic Care for Children: protecting children and safeguarding their capacities Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "Due to the challenges that our religious have had to face in the past, we are looking for a safe and formal way to carry out the apostolate, especially in the field of pastoral care for childre ...
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  27 March 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - At least 180 people took refuge in a hotel besieged by jihadists Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - About 180 people, including several foreigners, took refuge in a hotel in Palma, where they have been besieged since the night of March 24 by a jihadist group that has attacked the city in the pr ...
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  27 March 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Message of fraternity and solidarity of the Thai Church to the people of Myanmar Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with deep sadness and great regret that we follow recent events in Myanmar. We see too much hatred, too much violence, too much bloodshed, and too much suffering. We see the pain inflicte ...
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  27 March 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Churches, schools and a new village open to host families fleeing Boko Haram Yola (Agenzia Fides) - "Since 2014 we have welcomed in our diocese thousands of people fleeing from neighboring areas occupied or destroyed by Boko Haram, we have welcomed in the spaces of our Cathedral of Saint Teresa, ...
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  26 March 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The gratitude of the President of the Pontifical Mission Societies to the Church in Spain for its support for the missions despite the pandemic Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Giovanni Pietro Dal Toso, President of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), thanked Cardinal Juan José Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona and President of the Episcopal Conference of ...
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  26 March 2021
  ASIA/JAPAN - Solidarity and prayer for Myanmar on the part of the “sister Church” in Japan Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "Having developed a special condition of "sister Church" with the Church of Myanmar, we are very worried about the current situation and the impact it is having on people". This is stated in a let ...
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  26 March 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Faith in Christ during military service, with the help of new technologies Hanoi (Agenzia Fides) - Technology to support faith, not only to respond to the pandemic emergency: this is the experience of many young Catholics in Vietnam who, called to fulfill their military service, find themselves ...
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  26 March 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Proposal for dialogue on the part of the Bishops to the Head of State in the face of the worsening health, economic and social situation Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - Paraguay had provided exemplary support for the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and even constituted a model for managing this health crisis for other countries in South America. However, a ...
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  26 March 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Call for dialogue by the Bishop of Alotau to restore peace and order after an attack on the house of diocesan priests Alotau (Agenzia Fides) - "It was 2 am and, after a brief fight between fifty criminals and 5 local policemen, more than ten armed people entered the house of the diocesan priests where 11 of our priests and a deacon are ...
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  26 March 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Caritas and civil society organizations launch a campaign to reduce the risk of disasters Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Reducing the factors that cause disasters and the material and emotional impact generated by such events: this is the goal of the national campaign launched yesterday by Caritas Chile and by va ...
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  26 March 2021
  AFRICA/SIERRA LEONE - Thousands homeless after massive fire in capital's slum Freetown (Agenzia Fides) - At least 5,000 people are now homeless due to the large-scale fire that devastated the slum of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, on March 24 in the late afternoon. "The whole community ha ...
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  26 March 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US Senators ask President Biden to recognize the Armenian Genocide Washington (Agenzia Fides) - U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 37 of his Senate colleagues in requesting the Biden administration join the U.S. Congress in offici ...
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  26 March 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Fr. Harrison Egwuenu released Abuja (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Harrison Egwuenu, dean of St. George's College in Obinomba, is free again. According to Fr. Benedict Okutegbe, administrator of Sacred Heart Cathedral in the city of Warri, the priest was r ...