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  1 March 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - 10th Anniversary of the presence of the Xaverian missionaries at the service of the poor and the last, "by witnessing the Gospel of Jesus" Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "It all started in 2007 when, during the General Chapter, it was decided to open a new missionary presence in Asia. In times of crisis, marked by the decline in vocations, the aging of the staff ...
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  1 March 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Iraqi Christians remember Paulos Rahho. Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul, 13 years after his kidnapping and death Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - As they prepare to welcome Pope Francis, Iraqi Christians commemorate Paulos Faraj Rahho, Archbishop of Mosul, on the thirteenth anniversary of his kidnapping and assassination, and there are thos ...
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  1 March 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - 32 civilians killed in one week in North Kivu Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - 32 civilians were killed in a week in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, between Ituri and North Kivu (see also Fides, 27/2/2021). This was announced by CEPADHO (Center for Stu ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Another Christian student kidnapped: The number of cases is increasing in Punjab Gujranwala (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani police have registered a complaint about the kidnapping of another Christian student from Lahore in order to force her into an Islamic marriage. Mehwish Bibi, a student at the W ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Social media and mission: "We need to face a culture of selfishness" Astana (Agenzia Fides) - "The digital revolution has led us to live in a new, distant world that we have not been able to make better: the problems of 'normal' everyday life have been transported into the digital world a ...
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  27 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - After the fatal attack on the Italian Ambassador: More civilians are victims of massacres Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - In North Kivu, the eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where on February 22nd, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, his Italian ...
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  27 February 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - About 4 million people affected by food insecurity: the country is on the brink of abyss Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In the latest report by the United Nations Secretary-General on the situation in Haiti, the latter points out the worsening of the economic situation, below-average agricultural productio ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Patriarch Theophilos III to the Primates of the Orthodox Churches: "the unity of Orthodoxy is our daily prayer" Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - "I pray daily remembering each of you, offering praise, thanksgiving and intercessions, and knowing that 'his grace is sufficient for us, whose power is made perfect in our weakness' ". Thus T ...
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  27 February 2021
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - Farewell to Msgr. Ramousse, the Bishop who led the rebirth of the Cambodian Church Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - The Cambodian Church loses one of its most appreciated and loved apostles: French Bishop and missionary Yves Ramousse, Apostolic Vicar of Phnom Penh from 1962 to 1976 and then, in a second pe ...
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  26 February 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Reflection on the Pontifical Missionary Union at the center of the annual meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The XVII Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain has begun and this time it is taking place in digital form in view of the health situation. Its reflection relates mainly to one of t ...
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  26 February 2021
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - Mutual solidarity, rediscovery of fundamental human values: Christians and the pandemic Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) - Covid-19, the devastating floods in some areas of Hirshebelle, Southwest, Jubbaland and Puntland, and a new plague of locusts were the three factors that triggered the crisis and aggravated the ...
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  26 February 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: a prayer to entrust Pope Francis' trip "in the hands of the Lord" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchate has just released through its official channels a prayer to place Pope Francis' next trip to Iraq (5-8 March) in the hands of the Lord, with the supplication that the H ...
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  26 February 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 300 students of the GGSS Jangebee Secondary School in the state of Zamfara, in the north-west of Nigeria, were kidnapped by gunmen on the night of 25 February. This was stated by the teac ...
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  26 February 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Civil disobedience puts government authorities in trouble: Christians pray for a peaceful solution Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "There is determination but also concern among the people during these hours. The State is in crisis because of the actions of the Civil Disobedience Movement. State offices are closed or not wor ...
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  26 February 2021
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Bishops address the issue of fraternity on Independence Day Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "What does fraternity mean in the Dominican Republic today?" The Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic is addressing this question in its message for Independence Day on February 2 ...