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  24 April 2020
  AFRICA - "How can one be a missionary in times of Covid-19, when you cannot meet people?" Kara (Agenzia Fides) - Missionary activity is suffering heavily due to the Covid-19 crisis, many are trying to adapt through technology by offering masses, adorations, exhortations, etc. "Guaranteeing the evangelizing mi ...
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  24 April 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The policy towards religions does not change: the new government promotes coexistence Astana (Agenzia Fides) - About a year after the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the Kazakh ruler who led the nation from the dissolution of the Soviet Union to March 2019 making freedom of worship one of the flagshi ...
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  24 April 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - A "Non-migratory" Ramadan due to coronavirus: travelling and pilgrimages prohibited Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - For the holy month of "Ramadan", which began on the evening of April 23 and culminates on May 23 on the feast of Id-ul-Fitr, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, called "Jokowi", officially issued ...
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  24 April 2020
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Sunday 26: National day of prayer from one's own house for the end of the pandemic Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - The Permanent Council of the Dominican Episcopal Conference (DEC) has invited all the faithful to join the "National Day of Prayer" from their homes next Sunday, April 26, from 9 to 11, to ...
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  24 April 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Luca De Mata passes away, Director of Fides for 7 years Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Luca De Mata, Director of Agenzia Fides from May 2002, when he took over from Father Bernardo Cervellera, PIME, until September 2009, concluding his mandate for reaching age limits, passed away in ...
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  24 April 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Interreligious Council set up: working together for the good of the Venezuelan family Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives of the Christian Churches (Catholics, Evangelicals, Anglicans and Adventists), the Jewish community and a group of social organizations, came together to form the Venezuelan inte ...
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  24 April 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Rains devastate the south-east of the DRC: Bishops’ appeal for solidarity Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "At a time when we are worried about the COVID-19 pandemic, it is with great pain that we received the sad news of the disasters caused by the torrential rains of recent days in the provinces o ...
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  24 April 2020
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Widespread information to contain Covid-19: the contribution of civil society Kabul (Agenzia Fide) - "We have launched the largest social communication campaign in the Country. Our teams of young volunteers are active in visiting 18 provinces and creating awareness of the risks of the virus and wa ...
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  22 April 2020
  ASIA/TAJIKISTAN - Training and legal support: the Church's commitment to orphans Dushambe (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Tajikistan continues its work in support of teenagers belonging to the poorest sectors of society: legal support for young people was born as part of the project of mutual support betwe ...
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  22 April 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Lockdown for Covid-19, the Scalabrinians: "Poor and immigrants without livelihood" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - In South Africa the situation is becoming increasingly tense. Government measures that require the lockdown due to Covid-19 prevent those who live for today from getting food. The poorest p ...
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  22 April 2020
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Church launches a charity fund for coronavirus victims Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Bangladesh launches a special fund to help alleviate the suffering of people affected by the Covid-19 emergency and the consequent lockdown. "The Covid-19 pandemic has affec ...
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  22 April 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Indigenous people reject food parcels for fear of contracting Covid-19 Loreto (Agenzia Fides) - The National Coordination of Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in the face of the global health emergency, have asked the Peruvian government for precise and targeted directives regarding the c ...
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  22 April 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Missionaries in times of Covid-19: "a small and humble sign of the love of Christ in this land" Adaba (Agenzia Fides) - "Our missions are numerically small, but we immediately followed the indications that were given to us by public and religious institutions regarding Covid-19", explains missionary Fr. Nicola de G ...
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  22 April 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishops: "hunger is a current cry", need to alleviate the food and economic crisis that accompanies social isolation Asunción (Agenzia Fides) - "The spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) in our country and all over the world has important and serious repercussions in the life of each person, in social life and in our way of dealing with li ...
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  22 April 2020
  AFRICA/CAMEROON - Appeal of the Bishop of Bamenda to end the conflict in the English-speaking regions: "Now is the time for peace" Yaoundé (Agenzia Fides) - "After so many years fighting and killing each other, now is the time for peace", Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda wrote in his pastoral letter dated April 17 in which he appeals for a ...