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  18 February 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros's "family catechesis": let's free sons and daughters from false needs Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt too, the Covid-19 pandemic makes it impossible to participate in person in important gatherings and pushes many families to spend more time together at their homes. This de facto situatio ...
• 17 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Covid-19 pandemic: Burundian migrants blocked in South Kivu after border closure Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Due to the restriction in the fight against Covid-19, the borders are currently closed in the village of Katogota. Therefore, it is impossible for Burundian immigrants who live in our village ...
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  17 February 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Social and health crisis: hundreds of migrants from Brazil stranded at the border Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Maldonado has addressed an appeal to the government authorities about the development on the border with Brazil: After the arrival of more than 300 migrant ...
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  17 February 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ban on gatherings after the rise in new infections: "We also clarify the hygiene rules at church services" Bor (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing public gatherings, including Sunday services, required the intervention of the police in Bor, the capital of Jonglei state in eastern South Sudan. Due to non-compliance with preventive m ...
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  17 February 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: it is wrong to expect that the Pope's visit will solve all our problems Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis "is not coming to Iraq to solve all the problems" that the local Christian communities are facing. It certainly does not depend on him to bring back "Christians who emigrated abroa ...
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  17 February 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - A Lent of conversion, purification and hope Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In its Lenten message, the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile underlines the imposition of the ashes with which this liturgical season begins, inviting people to participat ...
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  17 February 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Two young Christians are charged for blasphemy on false accusations that could lead to the death penalty Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Two young Christians have been charged for blasphemy, accused of having preached Christianity to young Muslims and of having publicly dishonored Islam, the Koran and the Prophet Mohammed at Model ...
• 16 February 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - 425 health facilities made available by the Church as part of the fight against Covid-19 unused Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - 425 hospitals and clinics made available last year by the Nigerian Episcopal Conference as isolation centers in the fight against Covid-19 have not been used by the government, denounces a note fr ...
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  16 February 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - "Migrants, prostitutes and marginalized groups are the new lepers" Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - The rector of the Basilica Minore Nuestra Señora de Suyapa, Father Carlo Magno Núñez, Father Charlemagne Núñez, condemned the many murders of women in the country during the celebration ...
• 16 February 2021
  AFRICA/GUINEA - New Ebola infections in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo Conakry (Agenzia Fides) - On February 14, the government of the Republic of Guinea officially confirmed a new Ebola epidemic, while some cases of hemorrhagic fever were also reported from the Democratic Republic of the C ...
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  16 February 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Overcoming Divisions: The Ecumenical Fraternity Campaign Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Brazilian Bishops' Conference (CNBB) and the National Council of Christian Churches (Conic) are opening the fifth edition of the "Ecumenical Fraternity Campaign" (CFE) on Ash Wednesday, Feb ...
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  16 February 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Protests by Christians after the introduction of compulsory Hindu rites and prayers in public and private schools New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Within the federal territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, in western India, in all schools, students of all levels will have the obligation to celebrate Vasant Panchami (Hindu ...
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  16 February 2021
  EUROPE - Churches of Europe in prayer for the victims of the pandemic during Lent St. Gallen (Agenzia Fides) - From Ash Wednesday, and throughout Lent, the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences of the European continent invite people to pray for the victims of the pandemic. As the note sent to Agenz ...
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  16 February 2021
  VATICAN - Pope Francis commemorates the martyrs killed in Libya: "They have received the greatest gift that a Christian can receive" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The 21 martyrs of Libya killed by Daesh jihadists on a beach not far from the Libyan city of Sirte said shortly before they died: "Lord Jesus!". In confessing the name of Jesus while they were bein ...
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  15 February 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - A new church in Northeast India for the Jubilee of Faith Tangsa (Agenzia Fides) - The opening of a new church marks the celebration of 25 years of the presence of faith in a district in the diocese of Miao, in north-eastern India. The faithful of the village of Hetlong, in the ...