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  22 February 2021
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - "Catechesis and Mission": advanced training seminar aims to initiate dialogue Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - More than 650 people attended a one-week training seminar on “Catechesis and Mission” organized by the Pontifical Mission Societies in America with the support of the Society of Latin Ame ...
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  22 February 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syrian Catholic Archbishop Nathanael: here is the living Church that will welcome Pope Francis Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The Christian community which will welcome Pope Francis during his apostolic visit to Iraq "is poor, of reduced dimensions, without political influence, but it certainly constitutes a living Churc ...
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  20 February 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist monks intervene in negotiations with the army Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Bhamo Sayadaw Bhaddanta Kumara, the monk who represents the top of the Burmese Buddhist community (State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee) officially asks for dialogue between the parties in order to ...
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  20 February 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Bishops to the authorities: the most vulnerable people must receive the vaccine first Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask public authorities to facilitate the procedures for the purchase and administration of vaccines, respecting the established criteria, so that the most vulnerable people receive it first, a ...
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  20 February 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Donation from the Montfort Missionaries for the benefit of patients affected by Covid-19 in Malawi Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - "As Church, we could not leave government alone but join hands to help especially those suffering from Covid-19", he says. Mgr. Boniface Tamanimì, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Blantyre, ...
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  20 February 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - 14,000 participants in 30 countries for a virtual solidarity race in favor of the right to education Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The singer and activist Rozalén and her sign language interpreter, Beatriz Romero, were commissioned to kick off today, in digital form, the tenth edition of the Entreculturas solidarity Race, a ...
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  20 February 2021
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - The prophetic voice of the Bishops, a warning for the population affected by the Coronavirus pandemic Mbeya (Agenzia Fides) - "It is important that all of us accept the reality of Covid-19 and live by following the indications provided by the experts and by those who know how to contain the disease". This is the appeal m ...
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  20 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Promotion of a project to promote the social integration of young pygmies by Comboni Missionaries Mungbere (Agenzia Fides) - "This project is a springboard so that the pygmies begin to be active subjects of the society in which they live. To date, we have built a college where students can stay for extended periods. ...
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  19 February 2021
  ASIA/KIRGHIZSTAN - Fraternity and spirituality in the name of St. Joseph Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - A week of fraternity and spirituality on the shores of Lake Issyk-Kul: this is the initiative organized by the Church in Kyrgyzstan for the young people of the Parish of the capital Bishkek, and ...
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  19 February 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - REPAM: alarming increase in the number of infections and deaths due to Covid-19 in the pan-Amazon region Manaus (Agenzia Fides) - "Message of solidarity to the Amazonian peoples": it is under this title the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM) has launched an appeal for help in the face of the catastrophic situation that ...
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  19 February 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi: "Iraq is not Iraq without Christians" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "Iraq is not Iraq without Christians", said Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi on Thursday 18 February, receiving the members of the Council of Heads of Christian communities present in the count ...
• 19 February 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The pandemic has highlighted fragility, weaknesses and the need to support each other in faith and fraternity Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Lent is the right place that invites us to share, to the charity that comes from the heart and not from appearances. This time of pandemic has highlighted fragility, weakness and the need to su ...
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  19 February 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Not only anti Covid-19 prevention: polio vaccination campaigns launched for over 29,000 children Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A few days ago, the South Sudanese Ministry of Health confirmed the increase in corona infections (see Fides 17/2/2021) in various states of the country. But the country's health sector is also fac ...
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  19 February 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Bishops: "We need to tackle the issue of internally displaced people to avoid new tensions" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation remains worrying in various areas, despite a relative calm" the Bishops of Burkina Faso and Niger affirm in the final communiqué of their second Plenary Assembly for ...
• 19 February 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Chattogram Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Lawrence Subrato Howlader, C.S.C., of Barishal, as metropolitan archbishop of Chattogram, Bangladesh. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 19/2/2021) ...