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  17 June 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Father Pier Luigi Maccalli and the "company of the apostles" Genoa (Agenzia Fides) - "Among the lovers of the first apostolic experience, I love remembering Father Pier Luigi Maccalli, my confrere and friend of the Society of African Missions" – writes Father Bruno Semplicio, SM ...
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  17 June 2020
  VATICAN - "The value of martyrdom as an element of Christian life in El Salvador": towards the beatification of the missionary Cosma Spessotto Zacatecoluca (Agenzia Fides) - "I ask the Lord to give me the strength at the right time to defend the rights of Christ and the Church. To die a martyr would be a grace that I do not deserve. Washing all my sins, defects ...
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  17 June 2020
  ASIA/SYRIA - The Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo: the new sanctions against Syrian people are a "diabolical act" Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "Now in Aleppo everyone says: we were better off under the bombs". This is how Joseph Tobji, Maronite Archbishop of Aleppo, photographs the feelings among the population of the Syrian metropolis, ...
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  17 June 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Young Christian volunteers working in hospitals, on the front line against the pandemic Yangon (Agenzia Fide) - These young people are "the beautiful face of the nation", "are an example for everyone and testify that there is hope for the future". Thus the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Myanmar (CBCM) and ...
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  17 June 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - "An institutional crisis must be avoided, the date of the general elections must be respected" urge the Bishops Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Burkina Faso have invited the government of Burkina Faso to hold the elections on time and to commit themselves to improving the security situation in the Country. Vast areas ...
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  17 June 2020
  AFRICA/ESWANTINI - Covid-19: "Let us look to the future with hope, we will be called to be missionaries in new ways", says the Bishop of Manzini Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - "Announcing this special time of grace for our diocese I never thought we would face months of it in a full or partial lock-down. We planned special events thinking everything would be as usual. ...
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  16 June 2020
  ASIA - Pandemic and children's rights: thousands of children pushed onto the labor market Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "Children have the right to be protected from all forms of discrimination, exploitation and violence. The impact of Covid-19 containment measures in various Asian countries, the closure of schoo ...
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  16 June 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - A missionary: on the outskirts of Luanda the poorest are always the most generous Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Here in the great northern suburbs of Luanda, Kikolo area, the cases of infected by Covid-19 are many more than those declared by the government", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Renzo Adorni, pries ...
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  16 June 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - "Give them some food" (Mt 14,16): initiative to feed 10,000 people a day Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Due to the health emergency that we are experiencing for Covid-19, the economic crisis is seriously affecting the whole world and Peru is no stranger to this reality. Poverty in the country worsens ...
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  16 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople: calls for opening Hagia Sophia to Muslims and Christians prayers Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople Sahak Mashalian has endorsed the idea of restoring Hagia Sophia’s status as a place of worship, today visited by tourists as a simple monument after b ...
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  16 June 2020
  VATICAN - New aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency in Africa, Asia and America Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Fund established by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to support the Churches of mission countries in the face of the Covid-19 emergency (see Fides, 6/4/2 ...
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  16 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Churches in the State of Gujarat reopen for personal prayer Ahmadabad (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Gujarat, western India, opened its churches on June 15 to allow the personal, silent prayers of the faithful, while the nation is still under lockdown, due to Covid- 19. ...
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  16 June 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Cardinal Jean Pierre Kutwa suspends the activities of the Sacerdoce Royal apostolate Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "Various reports of former members of the Catholic Apostolate of Evangelization Sacerdoce Royal have appeared on social media, involving Mr. Do Oulaï Franklin Delaneaux, known as Abraham Marie ...
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  16 June 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Corpus Christi Mass in the Cathedral of Lima behind closed doors, but with 5 thousand photos of the dead for Covid-19 Lima (Agenzia Fides) - Photos of people killed by COVID-19 covered the benches and walls of the Cathedral of Lima on Sunday for a Corpus Christi mass in tribute to the victims of the coronavirus, officiated by the archbi ...
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  16 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19: "Need to protect the most vulnerable" says Chairman of the Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Seafarers Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The people living on the streets in towns and those suffering from mental illness are in a more precarious situation with a high risk of contracting, spreading, and being overwhelmed by COVID-1 ...