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  20 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Death of the Bishop Emeritus of Chimbote from Covid-19, known for his continual struggles of the marginalized Lima (Agenzia Fides) - With His Exc. Bishop Luis Armando Bambarén Gastelumendi, SJ, an icon of the Church in Peru, at the service of the poor and the humble disappears. The "Bishop of the suburbs" (pueblos jovenes), as ...
• 20 March 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Abduction of a priest in Delta State, southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - Another priest has been kidnapped in Nigeria: Fr. Harrison Egwuenu, dean of St. George's college in Obinomba, was kidnapped around 8 p.m. local time on March 15 in Abraka, in the local government ...
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  20 March 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Seminarian Michael Nnadi, killed because he invited his kidnappers to conversion, in view of the Day of Missionary Martyrs Sokoto (Agenzia Fides) - On February 1, 2020, His Exc. Mgr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of Sokoto, Nigeria, announced the discovery of the body of 18-year-old Michael Nnadi, the youngest of the four seminarians who, on ...
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  20 March 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Denunciation of the violence perpetrated by the police against Venezuelan immigrants and humanitarian workers Pacaraima (Agenzia Fides) - On March 17, agents of the Federal Police and the Civil Police of the State of Roraima carried out an operation in Pacaraima, a town on the border between Brazil and Venezuela, entering homes ...
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  18 March 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Appeal of the Pope and the local Church during the continuing protests against the mismanagement of the pandemic and the economy Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "This week I have been concerned about the news from Paraguay. Through the intercession of Our Lady of Miracles of Caacupé, I ask the Lord Jesus, Prince of Peace, that a path of sincere dialog ...
• 18 March 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Denunciation of the Archbishop of Korhogo against the lack of rigor on the part of the authorities in the management of the health crisis Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Principle-based management is good to the extent that the State establishes clear principles. But on a practical level, in the implementation of these principles, these are not respected", depl ...
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  18 March 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Three North American nuns and lay missionary killed 40 years ago in view of Missionary Martyrs Day San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, and volunteer Jean Donovan were four missionaries from the United States who were killed on December 2, 1980 in E ...
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  18 March 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Camillians and Fidei donum united in the mission to the sick Prachinburi (Agenzia Fides) - "I am in Prachinburi, in the Camillian Home, a center for the elderly which until 17 years ago was a leper colony. The house is managed by the Ministers of the Sick (MI), Camillians", says t ...
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  18 March 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - 70 exhibitors at the Fair for small youth enterprises promoted by the Coptic Church Alexandria Egypt (Agenzia Fides) - Today, March 18, the 5th Fair for Small Youth Enterprises, promoted by the local Coptic Orthodox Church, is being held in Alexandria. The annual initiative launched five years ago as an ...
• 18 March 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The "forgotten war" in Tigray: the testimony of the Salesians on the dramatic humanitarian situation Addis Abeba (Agenzia Fides) - Little news has come from the Ethiopian province of Tigray, where war has been raging between the Ethiopian armed forces and the militias of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) since ...
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  18 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist monks take sides with the demonstrators Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "It gives us courage and we see it as a glimmer of hope: At this terrible moment when the junta cuts the Internet connection so soldiers without witnesses can use violence and kill citizens, this ...
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  17 March 2021
  EUROPE/ALBANIA - The figure of Father Ettore Cunial in view of the Day of the Missionary Martyrs Rome (Agenzia Fides) - In view of the 29th "Day of Prayer and Fasting in memory of the Missionary Martyrs" of March 24 (see Fides, 16/3/2021), Agenzia Fides offers some testimonies of missionaries killed because of Gospe ...
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  17 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Call of the Bishops for the elections on the need to come out of the ongoing multi-dimensional crisis together Lima (Agenzia Fides) - In a document entitled "The politics we need", the Bishops of Peru have expressed their views on the next elections to be held next April. In the message signed on March 15, they point out that Per ...
• 17 March 2021
  AFRICA - "Receiving the available COVID-19 vaccine is an act of charity towards the weakest" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Support from various African Bishops' Conferences for the vaccination campaigns is underway in their respective countries. "In the absence of other means to stop or even prevent the COVID-19 pa ...
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  17 March 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Church warning about discriminatory behavior towards people with HIV Liwonde (Agenzia Fides) - "We are all equal and we must support and encourage each other so that even people with HIV can participate in the activities of the church and in the work of the development of the country". Th ...