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  4 June 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The diocesan center of Bougainville transformed into a quarantine reception facility Bougainville (Agenzia Fides) - After 8 cases of coronavirus infections registered in Papua New Guinea, all healed, the local Church continues to carry out preventive measures in favor of the population. Among these, Fr. ...
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  4 June 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - "I love Turkey". Ten years ago the murder of Bishop Luigi Padovese, "man of communion" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Even Luigi Padovese, just like St. John XXIII loved Turkey and loved the Turks". This was underlined by Br. Luca Bianchi ofmCap, Dean of the Franciscan Institute of Spirituality of the Pontifical ...
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  4 June 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The "White Masks" movement, born to support emeritus bishops, retired priests, pastors and elderly imams, in times of pandemic Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We must not and cannot abandon old priests who gave a lot, emeritus Bishops who did a lot", said Fr. Eric Norbert Abekan, parish priest of the Holy Family parish of Riviera in Abidjan, in expla ...
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  4 June 2020
  VATICAN - POPF Secretary General: "Every emergency in mission lands is always a concern for the Pontifical Mission Societies" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "I was very happy to receive the news that the Holy Father established a special Covid-19 emergency fund for the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS). Pope Francis has a deeply missionary hea ...
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  3 June 2020
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Bishops: "What does the country need to achieve a dignified life for every citizen" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - On the solemnity of Pentecost, the Bishops of El Salvador sent a message of hope and closeness to the people of God in this period of pandemic, urging the authorities for a co-responsible d ...
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  3 June 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Volunteer soldiers of God": a religious shares the fight against the coronavirus in Beni area Beni (Agenzia Fides) - "Volunteer soldiers of God", a religious woman shares what is experienced due to the coronavirus in the Beni area, Bolivia. In the face of the pandemic, Sister Gabriela Guibarra, Director of the M ...
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  3 June 2020
  AFRICA - Credible elections in Africa: the thorny struggle of the African Bishops Kara (Agenzia Fides) - In the dynamic of the mission as a commitment to justice, the challenge for a transparent electoral policy occupies a very important role in the public activity of the African Bishops' Conferences. ...
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  3 June 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - PMS Solidarity Fund: "In this period people need the Word, but also bread to survive" Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - "Angola registered two first cases of COVID-19 in March, and as a result, civil and religious authorities took appropriate measures to avoid the risk of community infection, since the registered ...
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  3 June 2020
  EUROPE/FRANCE - A PMS website to get to know Pauline Jaricot, who invented "the first missionary social network" Lyon (Agenzia Fides) - On May 26, Pope Francis authorized the publication of the decree recognizing the miracle attributed to the venerable Pauline Jaricot (1799-1862), thus opening the way for her beatification (see Fid ...
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  3 June 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Interreligious coexistence and solidarity: the songs of Catholics are viral on social media Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Two songs sung by Catholic nuns, priests and lay people, in the most densely inhabited Muslim country on the planet, have got the audience of social media heated on two very topical matters: the ...
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  3 June 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Economic crisis, the Maronite Patriarchate and the Jesuit University promote agricultural training projects Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The serious economic crisis that Lebanon has gone through, further aggravated by the Coronavirus pandemic, has seen the spontaneous initiatives of people multiply, who for the first time start to ...
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  3 June 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The greatest number of priests infected by Covid-19 in the states of Pará and Amapá Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The National Commission of Priests (CNP), linked to the Bishops’ Conference of Brazil (CNBB), has published the number of priests who have been affected by Covid-19 in Brazil. The study, sent ...
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  2 June 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - "Solidarity Gesture": food distribution to 24,000 families Margarita (Agenzia Fides) - The "Solidarity Gesture" campaign has managed to distribute food aid to 24 thousand families in many cities of the country. In the area of Margerita and Coche island in Venezuela alone, food ...
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  2 June 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - If the virus knows no boundaries: the caravan toward the USA does not stop Mexicali (Agenzia Fides) – The southern border of California, in the United States, is where many citizens of the United States arrive who live in Mexico for different reasons. Retirees who live alone or with their fam ...
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  2 June 2020
  VATICAN - Other aid from the PSM Fund for the Covid emergency in Sao Tomé and Principe, Sierra Leone, Chad and Guinea Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Fund set up by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) to support the Churches of mission countries facing the Covid-19 pandemic (see Fides, 6/4/2020), continue ...