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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Solidarity among parishes in the face of Covid-19 Pesqueira (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Solidarity Action, initiative of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) and of Cáritas Brasileira launched on Easter Sunday (see Fides, 11/4/2020), has already prom ...
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  16 April 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Caritas' commitment to respond to the Covid-19 emergency Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kazakhstan, the state of emergency for Covid-19 has been extended until May 1st. The situation does not seem very tragic in terms of number of infections but, on a subjective level, daily lif ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/ZIMBABWE - The coronavirus emergency exacerbates the economic crisis Harare (Agenzia Fides) - The lockdown has been imposed in Zimbabwe until April 19. Only health workers can go to work. All gatherings are prohibited. Religious ceremonies and funerals with more than fifty people are also ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - The Library in Alexandria offers online lessons on St. Corona, to be invoked during pandemics Alexandria (Agenzia Fides) - In times of the coronavirus pandemic, the Coptic Studies Center of the Library of Alexandria of Egypt announced the continuation of its activities during the month of April through an online ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Cardinal Kutuwa urges a conversion of hearts and minds: "Yes, this pandemic will surely pass, but what will it have taught us?" Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "The pandemic, like death, will never have the last word on the history of men because Christ is, and will always be, victorious over death, from any form of death", said Cardinal Jean Pierre Ku ...
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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops in the United States and Mexico: in times of pandemic "stop deportations in the name of the suffering people" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - One month after the beginning of the restrictions imposed to contain the Covid 19 pandemic, the Bishops of Guatemala note that some of the compatriots do not seem to have become fully awa ...
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  16 April 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - A mission attacked in the province of Capo Delgado Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Jihadist terrorist groups operating in the northern province of Cabo Delgado murdered 5 people in the Quirimbas archipelago on Good Friday, April 10, according to the newspaper "Carta de Mocambiq ...
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  16 April 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Covid-19: Catholics distribute food and face masks to the poorest Karachi (Agenzia Fides): "In these days we all live a limited life, we are in domestic confinement. We have enough food, but there are many people in the neighborhood, in our own neighborhoods who are not in the same sit ...
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  15 April 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The church denounces the violence of groups and asks for a truce Quibdò (Agenzia Fides) – Mgr. Juan Carlos Barreto, bishop of the diocese of Quibdó, denounced the increase in conflicts in the Colombian Pacific area. The situation, according to the Bishops of this Colombian region ...
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  15 April 2020
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The PMS for the Covid 19 emergency fund: "the missionaries are already ringing the alarm bell" Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain adhere to the request of the Holy Father to create an international emergency fund to help mission territories affected by this pandemic (see Fides ...
• 15 April 2020
  ASIA/JAPAN - Appointment of the Bishop of Fukuoka Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 14 April, 2020 the Holy Father appointed His Exc. Mgr. Josep Maria Abella Batlle, C.M.F., currently Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Osaka, as Bishop of the Diocese of Fukuoka (Jap ...
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  15 April 2020
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Cardinal Ouédraogo: "I hope for a wave of international solidarity to fight the coronavirus" Ouagadougou (Agenzi Fides) - "I would like from the bottom of my heart as a pastor to cry out for support in favor of a profound impetus of solidarity, both locally, regionally and internationally for patients with Covid ...
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  15 April 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - "Plenary Council" assembly of the Church has been postponed due to Covid-19: the "listening and discernment" phase continues Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - It will be a precious moment of gathering, reflection, planning of the future: the "Plenary Council", defined by the organizers as "the highest form of assembly of the Australian local Churches s ...
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  15 April 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - "Covid-19 is a serious reality. The future belongs only to the Risen Christ", writes a missionary Weru (Agenzia Fides) - "The awareness that the disease was serious and pandemic has now become reality", writes from Kenya Don Vittorio Grigoletto, fidei donum priest on a mission in Weru, in the dicoesi of Nyahururu, es ...
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  15 April 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Easter among closed churches, "condoned" places of worship and rumors of thwarted attacks Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The Egyptian government has accepted the indications of the follow-up committee which in recent days had certified the full compliance of other 74 churches and ecclesiastical buildings with the ru ...