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  9 April 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops to the faithful: Easter in "holy quarantine" to defeat Covid-19 Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - The Pakistani faithful will live Easter in "holy quarantine". "Do not fear this difficult moment that the world is going through, have faith and hope in God and spend the time of quarantine and ...
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  9 April 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Buddhist New Year and Christian Easter in confinement, due to Covid-19 Bagan (Agenzia Fides) – In Myanmar the Christian Easter in 2020 coincides with the Buddhist New Year. But the faithful of the two religious communities will not be able to celebrate the holidays with the usual rites an ...
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  9 April 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Ecumenical Message for Easter: "Do not be afraid" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of the Easter of Resurrection, which our Churches will celebrate on different dates (April 12 in the western tradition and April 19 in the eastern one), on the basis of the fraternity that ...
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  9 April 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - "Churches remain open in our hearts and actions", says the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "We are unable to endure other wars, we have no more strength, people are destroyed, homeless. I pray to God that a solution is found as soon as possible to defeat the virus all over the ...
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  9 April 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Covid-19: Caritas Peru helps 40 thousand vulnerable families across the country Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The general coordinator of "Caritas in the face of the coronavirus" campaign, reported on April 3 on national television, that the Caritas network has already assisted about 40,000 families across ...
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  9 April 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19, "the Church is close to her people in this moment of fear and despair" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church in Kenya is working hard to raise awareness among the population so that the measures imposed by the government to combat the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic are respected. And there ...
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  8 April 2020
  ASIA/THAILAND - Covid-19, "fear is disproportionate and visible", says a missionary Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Church has suspended all liturgical and pastoral activities, with the participation of the people, until after Easter and has disseminated information and preventive material, i ...
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  8 April 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - Scalabrinians: in the fight against Coronavirus, let us not forget the health conditions of migrants Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The crisis dictated by the coronavirus cannot abandon the work that is being done to protect the last. The Holy Father’s appeal cannot be forgotten and, on the contrary, must be the result of a ...
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  8 April 2020
  VATICAN - President of the PMS: the Emergency Fund, a sign of the Pope's care for the young Churches affected by the pandemic Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "For almost a century, the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) have been an instrument of the Pope for the benefit of the Churches in mission territories. We know that there is an impact of ...
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  8 April 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Home as a "mission land": material to live Holy Week at home Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) shares a series of prayer and reflection resources so that the faithful can follow the celebrations of Holy Week from home, in times of social isolation ...
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  8 April 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Coronavirus makes us more humble, invites us to return to God and to show solidarity towards the poor" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A bath of humility to remind everyone that it is necessary to return to God. Thus some Bishops of Nigeria exhort the faithful in the face of the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes ...
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  8 April 2020
  ASIA/TURKEY - COVID-19: Christian foundations contribute to funds for the solidarity campaign wanted by Erdogan Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The Turkish Foundations that are part of the Christian communities also adhere with substantial donations to the "National Solidarity Campaign" launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to acc ...
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  8 April 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Bishops launch "Appostolica", to remain united around the pillars of faith in times of the pandemic Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of Mexico presented the mobile application "Appostolica", "the Church now closer to you", a free tool "to unite the people of God around the pillars of our faith: the Word of God ...
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  8 April 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Digital Via Crucis animated by young people "for the health of the world" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In times of COVID-19, the San Paolo Company (Province Colombia, Ecuador, Panama) created a "digital Via Crucis", involving young people from different countries not only in Latin America: Colombi ...
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  7 April 2020
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - A "Telegram" channel to unite the various religious faiths in times of coronavirus Tashkent (Agenzia Fides) - Uzbekistan stops in the face of the widespread of Covid-19. In the Central Asian Country there are over 55 cases and still no deaths, but about 20,000 people are currently in quarantine: for th ...