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  25 August 2020
  ASIA / PAKISTAN - Minority leaders: "Religious intolerance and extremism are growing in Pakistan" Karachi (Agenzia Fides): “The issue of extremism and insecurity is the main problem for religious minorities living in Pakistan. Day after day, the religious minorities of Pakistan face aggression, while the effects of ...
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  8 August 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - The Catholic Church is always present where situations of poverty and illness are most urgent: the Camillians on the island of Flores help about 700 families Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - The coronavirus pandemic has also reached Indonesia with about 120,000 infected cases and more than 5,000 deaths. In particular, large cities such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Bali, Medan have been aff ...
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  8 August 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The bishop of Mendi urges everyone to observe together the first International Day against sorcery accusation violence Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Those who torture and kill women accused of sorcery are clearly guilty of the crime they are reporting", said Mgr. Donald Lippert, Bishop of Mendi, on recent episodes of violence against w ...
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  8 August 2020
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Support for the Church in Nicaragua on behalf of American Catholics Washington (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, issued the following statement: "Alongside Pope ...
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  8 August 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A missionary from the province of Guayas: "There is no certainty" Duràn (Agenzia Fides) - "Since May 28, our city has a yellow light, meaning commercial activities have reopened but with capacity reduced to 30% in order not to create crowds. Churches have also opened", writes Fr. Save ...
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  8 August 2020
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Rector of Santiago de María of Zacatecoluca Major Seminary murdered Zacatecoluca (Agenzia Fides) - Father Ricardo Antonio Cortéz was shot dead yesterday August 7, 2020. According to reports from the diocese of Zacatecoluca sent to Agenzia Fides, the vehicle with the corpse of the religi ...
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  7 August 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The health crisis jeopardizes the future of the most precarious populations Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis in the health sector in Papua New Guinea in recent months is worsening. Nurses and doctors from Catholic Health Services and Healthcare Facilities have reduced or stopped work co ...
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  7 August 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Creating spaces for dialogue, conflict is not Bolivian culture", Mgr. Centellas celebrates Te Deum for 195 years of independent life Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, Mgr.Ricardo Centellas, presided over the Eucharist of thanksgiving during the 195 years of Bolivia's independent life, this Thursday 6 August, i ...
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  6 August 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Caritas Lebanon: "We are living a nightmare, but we will not give up and will continue to help the most vulnerable" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes, thousands have been wounded and hundreds have died: this is the provisional toll caused by the explosion that took place on Tuesday, ...
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  6 August 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Letter from 152 bishops to criticize the management of the government Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 152 bishops from Brazil, about a third of the total members of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, has published a "Letter to the People of God", in which serious criticisms are made ...
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  6 August 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - The bishops on the political crisis in the Country: "This is the worst time to cause a new crisis" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - From large private companies to trade unions and the Catholic Church, everyone has asked the Executive and the Congress of Peru to immediately overcome the serious political crisis that the Country ...
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  5 August 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Peruvian solidarity: 100 dining rooms for 10,000 people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has transferred the funds raised during the campaign "For a Peru without hunger", a great crusade of national solidarity, to the 100 dining rooms to assist the most needy people sufferin ...
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  5 August 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The Amazon needs you", real help to the Amazonian peoples Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Almost three months after its launch, the "The Amazon needs you" campaign (See Fides, 19/05/2020) has collected over 700 thousand reais and this week provides a bulletin for the actions carried ...
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  5 August 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Covid 19: health projects to raise awareness, train and prepare health workers Yopougon-Kouté (Agenzia Fides) - The St. Laurent parish of Yopougon Kouté celebrates today 5 August the ceremony for the delivery of protective face masks, hydroalcoholic gel, sterilizers and ventilators, infrared ther ...
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  5 August 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: "mysterious explosion" in Beirut. We ask everyone for help Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Beirut, the bride of the East, Beirut, the lighthouse of the West, is wounded". It is a "devastated city", reduced to "a scenario of war without war". Thus begins the appeal launched by Maronite ...