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  6 April 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Covid-19, the Prime Minister of the state of Meghalaya: "Nothing is impossibile for God" Meghalaya (Agenzia Fides) - "At the beginning of this Holy Week, let us remember our faith in God, the Almighty. Today, the world is facing the great challenge of Covid-19. As Christians, we have hope in the Word of God ...
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  4 April 2020
  VATICAN - Covid-19, Caritas Internationalis to governments: "Do not forget the poor, migrants, peoples victims of wars" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not forget the South of the world, migrants and refugees, continue to help countries facing war and poverty" is the invitation that Caritas Internationalis (CI) has addressed to governm ...
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  4 April 2020
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A missionary: "Let's challenge the virus with prayer, charity and hope" Bozoum (Agenzia Fides) - Covid-19 has also reached the Central African Republic. Officially there are eight cases of contagion, but it is feared that the virus may be more widespread. "Last week - explained to Fides Aure ...
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  4 April 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Manila's "double war": coronavirus and drugs, with unpunished murders Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic has not slowed down the "drug crusade" in the Philippines. "Currently, the country is facing a double war: one concerning the war on drugs and the other ag ...
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  4 April 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Covid-19, "humanitarian aid for the population must be guaranteed" Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Closing the borders in South Sudan means condemning thousands of people to hunger: the food security of the population still depends on exports from neighboring countries as well as humanitarian a ...
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  4 April 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Order of Malta extends its projects all over the world to combat Covid-19 Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Covid-19 pandemic is profoundly influencing the activity of the Order of Malta, which every day offers social and health assistance around the world, but has now had to adapt to this unpreceden ...
• 4 April 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Jolo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father has appointed Fr. Charlie M. Inzon, O.M.I., currently Provincial Superior of the Oblate Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, (O.M.I) in the Philippines as Apostolic Vicar of t ...
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  4 April 2020
  ASIA/IRAN - Ayatollah rector of the University of Qom to Pope Francis: in the face of the pandemic, let us unite at the service of humanity Qom (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks for the concern shown by Pope Francis for the poor and needy in the time of the pandemic, and the proposal to "intensify" collaboration and exchange of experiences with Catholic institutions, ...
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  4 April 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - Has conronavirus caught Christian believers unprepared? "Coronavirus has caught Christians in the various continents unprepared, distracted by concerns and conflicts of diverse nature, and blinded by proposals of half-truths, warped truths and ‘instrumentalized truths’. W ...
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  3 April 2020
  ASIA/CHINA - Covid-19 emergency, help arrives at the Vatican and a letter from Chinese Catholics: "Holy Father, take care of yourself" Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - "Holy Father, during the epidemic, may you also have your person at heart. Do it for us, 1.3 billion Catholics around the world. Please take care of yourself too!". This is the recommendation th ...
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  3 April 2020
  OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - Aborigines: quarantine as a time for reflection accompanied by John Paul II Sydney (Agenzia Fides) - Take advantage of the period of social isolation, aimed at containing the emergence of the Coronavirus in order to be inspired by the words that John Paul II addressed to the Aborigines and the i ...
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  3 April 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - "From pain we build unity": call of Bishops to civil society, parties, government, in the face of the pandemic Quito (Agenzia Fides) - "The families of Ecuador are experiencing moments of distress, pain, uncertainty ... for the proliferation of the Covid 19 pandemic in our country, a situation that requires urgent and adequate at ...
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  3 April 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Church invites to practice charity with the most vulnerable and publishes a vademecum for priests Xalapa (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Mexico has launched an urgent appeal to the population to practice charity and support the most vulnerable, because in the face of the health crisis caused by the coronavir ...
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  3 April 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - 500 years since the first mass: "May our life regain meaning, desire, enthusiasm in order to put it at the service of the poorest" Río Gallegos (Agenzia Fides) - On the 500th anniversary of the first Mass in Argentine territory, in 1520, in the current city of Puerto San Julián, Santa Cruz, the Bishop of Rio Gallegos, Mgr. Jorge García Cuerva, ce ...
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  3 April 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Slums closed "they risk exploding": social effects of the fight against covid-19 Pretoria (Agenzia Fides) – There are just over a thousand cases and the dead are counted on the tip of a hand, but in South Africa Covid-19 is equally scary. "The virus - explains to Agenzia Fides Pablo Velasquez, a Sc ...