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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan's population exceeds 43 million, almost one in four needs help Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "Food insecurity remains alarmingly high in Sudan with increased and protracted displacement, economic decline and inflation, and high food price hikes, exacerbated by the impacts of the COVID- ...
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  9 July 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Social Week 2020: "In a creative way, we must ask ourselves: how can we get out of all this?" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Looking to the future with creativity": the second day of the 2020 Social Week took place in Argentina on this theme, which is held virtually because of the pandemic. On Tuesday, July 7 Dr ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - In al Moqattam church and mosque built on the same ground, in the sign of national unity Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The inauguration date has not yet been announced, but the imposing shapes of the church and the mosque built next to each other, on the same two-acre plot, in the urban district of al Moqattam, no ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - With the death of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, "the Country loses a model for young people" says President Alassane Ouattara Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ivory Coast's Prime Minister, died on Wednesday 8 July in Abidjan. The information was broadcast live on national television, RTI 1, by Patrick Achi, Secretary General of ...
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  9 July 2020
  VATICAN - Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ecuador and Bolivia receive aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid-19 emergency Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In many dioceses of mission territories, the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, of a health, social and economic nature, have added to already dramatic situations, as in the cas ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - Covid-19 - For the Bishops: "too many people do not respect the security protocols in the demonstrations for the December vote" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "We are concerned about the poor adherence to Covid-19 precautionary measures in the buildup to the country’s parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled to be held in December 2020", say ...
• 9 July 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Ricardo E. Guillén Davila Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 3, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Ricardo E. Guillén Davila, of the Archdiocesan clergy of Carac ...
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  8 July 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops: concern over the increase in violence against religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the current Covid-19 pandemic, which is posing its share of challenges in Pakistan, religious intolerance and discrimination in recent months have increased": is the complaint of the Nat ...
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  8 July 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Carmelites in support of Covid-19 patients from the diocese of Zomba Zomba (Agenzia Fides) - The hospital of the Pirimiti community of the diocese of Zomba has received three oxygen concentrators to equip the isolation ward for Covid-19 patients which was specifically created to deal with ...
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  8 July 2020
  AMERICA - Covid 19: support to Nicaraguan bishops by Central American bishops San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Central America has given strong support to Nicaraguan bishops who speak and act to protect the most vulnerable population facing the Covid-19 pandemic. In a message, the Pres ...
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  8 July 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Crimes based on religious discrimination cannot go unpunished Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "All the residents on this street are Muslims and they do not want Christians to live here: this is what the attackers said to my husband and us; since we did not succumb to those pressures, th ...
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  8 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Martyrs of the faith and the nation": the first cinematographic work on the Copts killed in Libya by the jihadists begins Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - The first cinematographic work dedicated to the 20 Coptic Christians beheaded in 2015 by the jihadists together with their Ghanaian workmate will be entitled "Martyrs of the faith and the nation ...
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  8 July 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Since the Covid-19 emergency, new collaborations in the Church thanks to telework Almaty (Agnzia Fide) - "The state of emergency due to Covid-19 has provided an opportunity for the emergence of new relationships and forms of cooperation, both inside and outside the Church. As is happening all over the ...
• 8 July 2020
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 April 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Martial Ramiakadaoro, of the diocesan clergy of Antsirabé as Na ...
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  8 July 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - UN report: more than 1,100 people killed by Ugandan rebels in just over a year in the east of the Country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 397 cases of human rights violations attributable to ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) between 1 January 2019 and 31 January 2020, with the killing of at least 1,154 people, including 2 ...