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  8 May 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Heads of Churches: Israeli annexation plans and divisions among Palestinians sabotage hopes for peace Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Israel's plans for unilateral annexation of West Bank lands, "backed mainly by right-wing factions", raise "catastrophic questions" about the feasibility of any peaceful agreement to end the d ...
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  8 May 2020
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Bishops denounce serious human rights violations in the application of measures to contain Covid-19 Monrovia (Agenzia Fides) - "Since the beginning of the emergency phase, there have been gross violations and missteps in the enforcement of the state of emergency and the measures as announced by the President", denounce ...
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  8 May 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "We need peace and not to fuel conflict" says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Tombura-Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "Let's avoid clashes, fighting or violence, let's not get involved in any conflict because of the desire for power", says to Agenzia Fides the bishop of the diocese of Tombura Yambio, Mgr ...
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  8 May 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Day of prayer on May 14 to ask for an end to the pandemic and war Yangoon (Agenzia Fides) - A special prayer to ask for healing from coronavirus and the end of the war in the nation: in this spirit, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Myanmar has announced its participation in the "Day ...
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  8 May 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The new "Commission for religious minorities" will only be effective if created through an act of Parliament, otherwise it risks being useless Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - The new National Commission for religious minorities, created by the government of Pakistan, risks being an empty and useless organ, without any real power. This is why it must be created, like o ...
• 8 May 2020
  EUROPE/IRELAND - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Michael O’Sullivan, M.Afr. Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 13 January 2020 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Michael O’Sullivan, M.Afr as National Director of the Pontifical ...
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  7 May 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - Families without work and without food because of the pandemic: initiatives of the Chilean dioceses Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The pandemic has affected everyone, in particular hundreds of Chilean families who have been left without work or resources to meet basic needs. For this reason, the diocese of Iquique, through ...
• 7 May 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Victor Roche, SVD Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On January 1, 2020 Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Victor Roche, SVD National Director of the Pontifical Mission Socie ...
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  7 May 2020
  AMERICA - Urgent dissemination of necessary minimum information on Covid-19 among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, initiatives of Christian groups Madre de Dios (Agenzia Fides) - With the aim of spreading and strengthening the minimum information needed on Covid-19 among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, a team of bilingual interpreters, communicators and educa ...
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  7 May 2020
  ASIA/CHINA - Marian month in times of pandemic: Chinese Catholics follow the "Visitation method" and the teaching of Pope Francis Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - The "method of the Visitation of Mary" as a model suitable for all the baptized to live faith and devotion in May, the Marian month; and a "Year of the family" inspired by the teaching of Pope F ...
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  7 May 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Christ present in the Word and in charity is rediscovered in times of pandemic Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "Without Sunday Mass, without the Eucharist, meeting at home with one’s families in prayer has led us to reflect with a new vision. We are experiencing what is 'normal' in the most remote ...
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  7 May 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops ask for clarity on the use of funds to cope with COVID-19 Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "We are concerned by the reports that some funds meant for the pandemic containment appear to be misused", said Vice-Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), His Exc. Mgr. Jo ...
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  7 May 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Between economic crisis and online prayer: the Covid-19 emergency shakes the nation Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "The spread of coronavirus offers Thai Christians the opportunity to reflect and strengthen their relationship with God, prompting personal prayer and praying together with members of one’s fa ...
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  7 May 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - Syrian Catholic Church makes the seminary in Mosul available for the treatment of the infected with COVID-19 Mosul (Agenzia Fides) - 48 single rooms, made available to accommodate people infected with Coronavirus who do not need to undergo intensive care or have to spend a quarantine isolation period after recovery. The Syro-Ca ...
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  7 May 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - In times of pandemic crisis, a priest prays the Rosary on the streets of his parish territory Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "We have decided to pray the Rosary through the city, on the one hand to show the face of the Church, which is certainly confined (due to the Coronavirus) but whose voice is not silent, and on t ...