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  30 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - General Assembly of Bishops: "sharing faith and resources, with generosity and co-responsibility" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "This year we celebrate the 500th year [1521-2021] of the arrival of the Christian faith. Our commemoration of the event is a tribute to this immense gift to our people and our country. Not only ...
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  30 January 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - World Day of leprosy: Camillian missionaries "alongside the last to announce the Good News" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The main cause of suffering for people affected by leprosy is social exclusion: even when they manage to recover from this disease, social reintegration is often difficult". This is what Fa ...
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  30 January 2021
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The local Catholic Church protects the rights of people with albinism Blantyre (Agenzia Fides) - In several African countries the phenomenon of albinism makes albino people live in fear of being kidnapped and killed, due to the widespread belief that some parts of their bodies have special ...
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  29 January 2021
  VATICAN - "Mission of compassion" and co-responsibility between dioceses in the universal Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "In the Message for World Mission Day 2021, Pope Francis recalls that the current situation of the pandemic has brought to the fore and amplified the pain, the solitude, the poverty, which ...
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  29 January 2021
  VATICAN - Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for World Mission Day 2021 Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Today we publish the Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for World Mission Day 2021, entitled «We cannot but speak about what we have seen and heard» (Acts 4:20) Dear Brothers and Si ...
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  29 January 2021
  VATICAN - Cardinal Tagle: "Mission is to share the love received from God, out of pure gratitude" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The Holy Father in the Message for World Mission Day of 2021, taken from the Acts of the Apostles, brings together the mission and the human experience of the mercy of Christ: he wants to ...
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  29 January 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christian woman accused of blasphemy released by police after investigation Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "Tabitha Nazir Gill, a 30-year-old Christian, known for singing Gospel hymns in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, was accused of committing blasphemy yesterday, January 28; she was taken ...
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  29 January 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Appeal of the Church and civil society in the face of the Covid-19 emergency on the priority nature of the protection of life over politics and business Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Santa Cruz, Mgr. Sergio Gualberti, denounced the fact that the efforts in view of the electoral campaign overshadow the commitment to safeguard health and life, and asked po ...
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  29 January 2021
  AFRICA - The second wave of Covid-19 and Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Several African countries are currently experiencing the second wave of the virus", says Fr. Charles Chilufya SJ, Coordinator of the Task Force Africa of the Vatican Covid-19 Commission and Direct ...
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  29 January 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Exhortation of the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio to 150 new confirmed on the need to be ambassadors of Christ Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - On January 10, on the occasion of the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, 150 faithful from the Parish of Saint Mary Mother of God of Yambio received the sacrament of confirmation. The Bish ...
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  28 January 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Priority is to save lives: Lent and Easter Masses to take place online in Flores Larantuka (Agenzia Fides) - "I would like to clarify that the celebration of the liturgy of 'Holy Week' and Easter Sunday has not been canceled. In fact, the celebrations will take place as the liturgy provides. We have ...
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  28 January 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Caritas Ecuador celebrates its 60th anniversary Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Social Pastoral Care/Caritas Ecuador celebrated 60 years of service in the Andean country. Parish communities, peasants, indigenous people, women, children, young people, migrants, the elderly ...
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  28 January 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The drama of Christian families who see the kidnapping and conversion of their daughters to Islam in the face of the impunity regarding this crime Rawalpindi (Agenzia Fides) - Rafique Masih is a Pakistani Christian who, like a heartbroken father, begs the police to find his daughter, who has been kidnapped. As Fides learned, Rafique Masih, who lives in Rawalpindi, ...
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  28 January 2021
  AFRICA /TOGO - Mission and the desire to leave for distant places Sokodè (Agenzia Fides) - "If someone asks me today why I want to be a missionary, the answer is different from that at the beginning. It is not just a feeling, it is something deeper", writes Sebastião Moniz, seminaria ...
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  28 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - The testimony of a Christian kidnapped by jihadists Niamey (Agenzia Fides) – Italian missionary Father Mauro Armanino from the Society for Africa Missions lives and works in Niger. He reports on the torture suffered by a Christian farmer, originally from the same area ...