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  23 June 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - The Bishops: "Enough of the cynical way of proceeding that plays with the sacredness of life" Lomé (Agenzia Fides) - "Without a serious reform of the electoral framework in view of free, transparent, credible and peaceful elections, democracy cannot really thrive in Togo", say the Bishops of Togo in a press rele ...
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  23 June 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "I believe in a unique, strong, stable and free South Sudan", says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "The struggle for liberation was founded on the pillars of a law-abiding, prosperous and peaceful South Sudan", said Mgr. Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop of the diocese of Tombura-Yambio ...
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  23 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - A Jesuit: "The life of refugees matters: No to exclusivism and false nationalism" Ahmedabad (Agenzia Fides) - "In India, a particularly significant issue is that related to the reception and living conditions of refugees: in recent months the spotlight in the country has been on internally displaced p ...
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  23 June 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Winds of war with Turkey, Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate and Evangelical leaders alongside al Sisi Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Coptic Orthodox Church has always been at the side of the Egyptian nation in all the difficult passages of its history, and now supports the national political and military authorities by supp ...
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  23 June 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Wave of IDPs in the northern province, caused by violence and destruction Nampula (Agenzia Fides) - "People are terrified and run away from villages. There are now only two thousand in Namialo, more than 300 here in Nampula. They flee the violence and destruction that has been shaking the nort ...
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  22 June 2020
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Two years ago the Bishops went to Masaya to be close to the people and avoid another massacre Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body" (Mt 10,28). Two years ago, on June 21, 2018, the Bishops went to the city of Masaya to be close to the people, pray with the people and avoid anothe ...
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  22 June 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo: need to include migrants and displaced persons in the response to the Covid-19 crisis Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - Migrants and displaced people in Myanmar and throughout Asia face increasingly difficult situations: "They are often on the run, crowded together, and with inadequate health care", said Cardinal ...
• 22 June 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Paul Trairong Multree Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 18 2020, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Paul Trairong Multree, of the Ratchaburi diocesan clergy, a me ...
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  22 June 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, educator of young people, killed while forgiving her murderers will be blessed Como (Agenzia Fides) - On June 19 the Holy Father authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the Decree concerning the martyrdom of the Servant of God Sister Maria Laura Mainetti of the Congregati ...
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  22 June 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - An ancient Christian cross discovered in the mountains of Northern Pakistan Islamabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The stone cross found in the mountains of Skardu-Baltistan indicates the presence of Christianity in northern Pakistan, already ten centuries ago. It is an important historical discovery and ...
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  22 June 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Turkish raids on Iraqi villages. Chaldean Patriarch Sako: "What does Erdogan want?" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Between Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June Turkish planes bombed the area near Zakho, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan on the border with Turkey, historically characterized by the strong roots of Chaldean, ...
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  22 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - "We are custodians of our brothers and sisters: Children’s right and black lives matter" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "In Africa, there is increase in gender based-violence, sexual violence, early pregnancies, forced labor, child trafficking, early marriages and increased cases of Female Genital Mutilation, and ...
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  22 June 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Church involved in the "crusade for life", to help vulnerable and migrant families Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 21 June, from the minor Basilica of San Lorenzo Mártir, Cathedral of the archdiocese of Santa Cruz (Bolivia), Mgr Sergio Gualberti presided over the Mass concelebrated by Mgr. Re ...
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  22 June 2020
  AFRICA/CONGO - "Something evil can lead to a good thing" says a Congolese priest who describes the religious and social situation caused by Covid-19 Brazzaville (Agenzia Fides) - "Something evil can lead to a good thing" writes to Fides Don Armand Brice Ibombo, priest and teacher in the Republic of Congo, in describing the consequences of the pandemic due to Covid-19 ...
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  20 June 2020
  VATICAN - "Forced like Jesus Christ to flee": living with dignity as refugees in the time of the coronavirus Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Victims of violence, fear and above all of an unfair system, in 2019, 33.4 million people in 145 countries were forced to leave their homes in addition to the hundreds of millions of refuge ...