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  28 July 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Scalabrinians: infections, unemployment and corruption increase Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - South Africa has entered "phase 3" of the coronavirus pandemic, but the infection, instead of stopping, is spreading. The cases have reached 395,000 (half of all infections in Africa) and t ...
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  28 July 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Christian faith flourishes in the territory of the "giraffe women" Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - "The parish of Tananukwe includes five villages and a population of 560 families. The majority of the people in this area are Christian, with a strong Catholic presence". Father Pius Kyan speaks ...
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  28 July 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "How much is life worth?": Awareness campaign to combat human trafficking Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - From 26 to 30 July, the Episcopal Commission of Special Pastoral Care for the Fight against Human Trafficking (CEPEETH) of the Episcopal Conference of Brazil (CNBB), carries out the campaign en ...
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  28 July 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops' message for the national holiday:"It is necessary to assume responsibilities and commitments" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - On Monday 27 July, Mgr. Miguel Cabrejos, president of the Episcopal Conference, celebrated Mass and Te Deum in the Cathedral of Trujillo, on the occasion of the 199th anniversary of the Independenc ...
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  28 July 2020
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Covid-19, the Church offers aid to the homeless Dushanbe (Agenzia Fides) - With a service for the distribution of masks and hand disinfectants, Caritas Tajikistan has arranged for a project to help the homeless, while the Covid-19 health emergency is underway. This wa ...
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  28 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Monastery of St. Macarius commemorates Abbot Epiphanios, two years after his assassination Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The commemorations of Anba Epiphanios, Coptic Orthodox Bishop killed two years ago, on 29 July 2018, will take place on Wednesday 29 July at the Monastery of St. Macarius, in that monastery, where ...
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  28 July 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Living Life with Right Relationships": youth meeting on the values of Christian life Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - Relationships between human beings are the key to a happy existence and are also the cornerstone of the life of faith, which is made up of a vertical relationship (with God) and horizontal ...
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  27 July 2020
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The PMS Director: "Spreading the message of Jesus’ love is a mission that involves all the baptized" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - "We have received the Holy Father’s message with great enthusiasm. We sincerely believe that it is not a simple protocol speech, but a message aimed at renewing the missionary spirit of the Chu ...
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  27 July 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - The first Catholic radio station of the Archdiocese of Blantyre kicks off Kuwala (Agenzia Fides) - After two years’ search of license to set up a radio station in Blantyre Archdiocese, Kuwala (light) FM as the radio will be known has received a regional license making it the first Catholic r ...
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  27 July 2020
  EUROPE/FRANCE - In the memory of Father Hamel, the rejection of all violence and respect for human life Rouen (Agenzia Fides) - "For the fourth year, we are gathered in this too small church of Saint-Étienne du Rouvray, with you priests, nuns, parishioners, with you, the dear family of Father Jacques Hamel, with you witne ...
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  27 July 2020
  AMERICA - CELAM has been illuminating and promoting the Church's mission in Latin America for 65 years Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "One day like today, July 25, 1955, the First General Conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate began in Rio di Janeiro": with these words the Presidency of CELAM informs of this ...
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  27 July 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Archdiocese in Kerala offers the government its facilities as treatment centers for Covid-19 Thiruvalla (Agenzia Fides) - An Indian archdiocese has offered its various facilities and institutions to the government as treatment centers for Covid-19 patients in the state of Kerala. As Fides learns, Archbishop Thom ...
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  27 July 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - New website of the Peruvian Bishops is online Lima (Agenzia Fides) - With the initials ANCEP, which stands for News Agency of the Peruvian Episcopate, the new information website of the Church in Peru is online. Photographs, videos and a presentation that automatica ...
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  27 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Bishops in plenary assembly: health, social and political crisis at the center Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing health crisis, with spiritual, pastoral, economic, social and political challenges: is the central theme of the 116th Plenary Assembly of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ivory ...
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  27 July 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Support and hypothesis of compensation for Christian refugees and Yazidi refugees in Kurdistan Erbil (Agenzia Fides) - The precarious condition of Christian and Yazidi refugees still displaced in the territories of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan was at the center of the talks held on Sunday 26 July in Er ...