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  15 March 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Call to combat human trafficking: new forms of recruitment devised during the pandemic Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the dramatic reality of human trafficking, aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Special Pastoral Episcopal Commission for the Fight against Human Trafficking of the Bishops' Conf ...
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  15 March 2021
  VATICAN - Pope Francis to Filipino migrants in Rome: you are "smugglers of faith" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "I have often said that here in Rome Filipino women are “smugglers” of faith! Because wherever they go to work, they sow the faith”. This is what Pope Francis repeated during the homily of th ...
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  12 March 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Appeal of the Pact for Life and for Brazil in the face of the worsening pandemic situation in the country Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "There is no time to waste, negtionism kills. The virus is circulating from north to south of Brazil, replicating strains, affecting different age groups, punishing the most vulnerable. Patient ...
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  12 March 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - A blog run by young people to support the mission in the Peruvian forest during the pandemic Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) - "Anthropology of the mission", "Recent history of the mission in the forest", "Curiosities about the missions", "Teaching to fish", are the latest titles to appear on the new Blog that an ever-g ...
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  12 March 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Reception and rehabilitation of former child soldiers from the Diocese of Tombura-Yambio Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - The recruitment and involvement of children in conflict remains the most common type of violation against minors in conflict in South Sudan. In the state of Western Equatoria, nearly 100,000 chil ...
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  12 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: "The country needs peace and freedom; the role of the army is to protect, not to attack the people" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "In this Lenten season let us not abandon the hope that Myanmar will rise again. The path to be followed with faith, love and dialogue is a path of truth and justice, which leads to freedom, peac ...
• 12 March 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Satisfaction with the qualification of a global terrorist group affiliated with the alleged "Islamic State" to the ADF/MTM on the part of the US State Department Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We have learned with great interest of the decision of the State Department of the United States of America formally designating the ADF/MTM movements of the DRC and Ansar al-Sunna of Mozambiq ...
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  12 March 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Judicial decision on the use of the name of Allah in Christian publications, "a victory of common sense" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "The High Court's decision to allow the word Allah to be used by Christians across Malaysia is a victory of common sense and should not be seen as the victory of one group or community over ...
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  12 March 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Rite of reparation in the Cathedral of Ibagué after the desecration of March 8 Ibagué (Agenzia Fides) - Today, March 12, at 11.30 am local time, a rite of reparation celebrated by the Archbishop, His Exc. Bishop Orlando Roa Barbosa, after the desecration that took place in recent days. On the occa ...
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  12 March 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Support of the Greek Melchite Episcopate for "Lebanese neutrality" Raboué (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Greek-Melkite Catholic Church have also launched an appeal aimed at keeping Lebanon away from regional conflicts, agreeing with the many appeals expressed in this regard by th ...
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  11 March 2021
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Testimony of three nuns of the Missionary Company of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and their friendship with the Muslims of Taza Taza (Agenzia Fides) - Taza is a Muslim town of 150,000 inhabitants where, currently, the only Catholic community present is made up of three nuns of the Missionary Company of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. "It is not possib ...
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  11 March 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The situation remains very difficult, the Church constantly invokes peace and dialogue to solve problems Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church cannot take a position in favor or against the accusation of impeachment of the President of the Republic. The position of the Church is to constantly invoke peace": these are the w ...
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  11 March 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The mission of the politician: a vocation at the service of national reconciliation and the construction of the common good Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Political vocation cannot be reduced to belonging to a party or to supporting an ideological postulate from a platform. Politics, on the other hand, implies a "vocation to service". This ser ...
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  11 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "The military say 'peace' but brutality and violence increase" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "The military wants to show the people and the whole world that they are making peace and that they intend to relaunch dialogue with ethnic groups. This is why they have removed the label of a 't ...
• 11 March 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Humanitarian crisis in Nampula worsens Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Covid-19, cholera and lack of food are the plagues that afflict the Mozambican province of Nampula, where on March 6 during his pastoral visit, His Exc. Mgr. Inacio Saure, Archbishop of Nampula, ...