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  22 May 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - The church creates the Covid-19 Spiritual Accompaniment Service, a quick response to those who need it Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - Latin America is going through the worst health emergency. The cases of COVID-19 are increasing in almost all the countries of the American continent. The Episcopal Conference of Chile, as a w ...
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  22 May 2020
  VATICAN - Message of the Holy Father to the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Below is the full text of the Pope's Message to the Pontifical Mission Societies sent on May 21, feast of the Ascension of the Lord. When they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, ...
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  22 May 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Indigenous peoples: desperate situation that is worsing due to COVID-19 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Venezuelan Bishops, together with the ecclesial organizations that deal with indigenous peoples, are in solidarity with the voice of the indigenous communities expressed in their "Document on th ...
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  22 May 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Street children during the times of COVID-19 Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - The life of the street children of Nairobi has never been easy since they appeared on the streets. They started calling them chokora (garbage). Over the years they have received a lot of media h ...
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  22 May 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - After the epidemic, we must think of "re-evangelization" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The United Nations has launched the appeal: 'We are on the verge of a global famine of biblical proportions, with over 250 million people at risk'. The African continent has been preserved from ...
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  22 May 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Quota reserved for non-Muslim students in Punjab universities: a positive step for minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - Religious minorities in Pakistan appreciate the measure approved by the government of the Punjab province which sets a 2% quota for students enrolled in universities, reserved for religious minor ...
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  22 May 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Condition of the Rohingya: the Burmese government in the Hague Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - On Saturday 23 May the Burmese government must present its first report on the condition of the Muslim minority of the Rohingya in Myanmar, in compliance with a sentence of 23 January in which th ...
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  20 May 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Covid 19: social pastoral workers are a bridge among people in need Malaga (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church continues to pursue its commitment by accompanying, supporting, protecting and coordinating efforts to guarantee the minimum necessary that communities need in this period of ...
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  20 May 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - After Covid-19, a "green change" in the economy is urgently needed, starting from agriculture Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in the Philippines sees the urgency and proposes a "green change" in the country's economy, especially in the post-Covid-19 period. According to the economists of the Jesuit-led Univer ...
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  20 May 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - In his visit John Paul II encouraged us "not to give up the dream and commitment to a reconciled and fraternal Paraguay" Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "In the Year of the Word of God which celebrates our Church in Paraguay, God has sought ways to make the Good News more alive and present. The churches have been empty, but the pulpits have bee ...
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  20 May 2020
  AFRICA/ANGOLA - Life after Covid-19 will never be the same: hunger and poverty are on the rise Luanda (Agenzia Fides) - The first cases of coronavirus in the country were registered by the authorities in late March. A few weeks later, the government decreed a state of emergency, but "during the crisis, the constan ...
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  20 May 2020
  AFRICA/GHANA - "Covid-19 is bringing out the image of the Church as a family of God", says the PMS National Director Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "Covid-19 has encouraged families to pray together and to stay together, bringing out the image of the Church as a family in Africa", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Isaac Ebo-Blay, National Director of ...
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  20 May 2020
  ASIA/CAMBODIA - The memory of the victims of the Khmer Rouge is an occasion to remember the Cambodian martyrs Phnom Penh (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us remember today the victims and the sufferings that occurred during the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. Let us also remember our martyrs. And let us pray for peace, dialogue and reconcil ...
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  19 May 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The "Amazon needs you" campaign begins Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "The Amazon needs you" is the campaign launched yesterday, May 18, on the social networks of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network in Brazil (Repam-Brazil) and of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  19 May 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Active in prayer and on social networks: the PMS during the Covid-19 period Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic has questioned the mission in its very nature: the mission in fact involves sending, going out to meet your neighbor. However, right now, faced with this situation of isolation ...