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  30 March 2020
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Missionaries multiply their efforts, but hunger will be more deadly than Covid 19 Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The health emergency following Covid-19 has now reached all continents. The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain have collected the testimony of some missionaries who have doubled their co ...
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  30 March 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - "The police are too brutal in applying coronavirus containment measures" denounce "Justice and Peace" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The actions by law enforcement officers yesterday across the Country especially in Mombasa are unacceptable. The brutal acts only adds more injury to the people who are already vulnerable, this ...
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  30 March 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Fighting Covid-19: prayer, solidarity, hope New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Christian faithful in India are committed to serving the nation in this moment of crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic. "In India, the lockdown of almost a month represents a challenge, ...
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  30 March 2020
  VATICAN - Pope Francis re-launches the UN appeal: all conflicts should stop in the face of the pandemic Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The planetary emergency of the coronavirus pandemic, "which knows no borders", makes more urgent than ever a "global and immediate ceasefire in all corners of the world". This is the appeal launche ...
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  30 March 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Covid-19: the Jesuits open a psychological support center Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the spread of coronavirus and its psychosocial impact on the population, Fr. Jean Messingue, specialist in clinical psychology and director of ITCJ, the theology institute of the Soci ...
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  28 March 2020
  AFRICA - Boko Haram hits hard in Nigeria, Chad and threatens northern Cameroon Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - In the midst of a coronavirus emergency that has also reached western Africa, the Countries of the region are confronted by the upsurge of Boko Haram which in a series of attacks between Nigeria a ...
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  28 March 2020
  AFRICA/RWANDA - Covid-19: situation under control, but the problem of water scarcity remains Kigali (Agenzia Fides) - "In just over a week, until yesterday evening, we have reached 40 infections due to COVID 19 in Rwanda", says to Agenzia Fides Omar Fiordalisio, representative of The Movement for the Fight again ...
• 28 March 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Merauke Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Merauke, Indonesia, presented by Archbishop Nicolaus Adi Seputra, M.S.C. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 28/3/ ...
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  28 March 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Comboni Missionaries: "We must strengthen an atmosphere of democracy and peace" Awasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Ethiopia is making great strides, but still experiencing severe economic and social difficulties". This was reported to Agenzia Fides by Father Pedro Pablo Hernandez, a Comboni missionary of Mexi ...
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  28 March 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Appeal by Alianza Interreligiosa: Responsibility and solidarity in the face of the pandemic Sao Paulo (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask all the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean, as some are already doing very effectively, to adopt responsibly and decisively the necessary measures to protect the lives of a ...
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  28 March 2020
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The only Catholic church in Afghanistan closes for the Covid-19 emergency Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic chapel of the Italian Embassy in Kabul - the only Catholic church in Afghanistan - has suspended celebrations to respond to the containment measures of the coronavirus. This is what F ...
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  28 March 2020
  NEWS ANALYSIS/OMNIS TERRA - The "digital Church" in Asia amid coronavirus crisis Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has affected more nations than the World Wars. The outbreak has impacted every aspect of life—family, social, business, governance, education, econom ...
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  27 March 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - "United with the Pope in prayer for humanity!" Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - The Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile joins the invitation that Pope Francis addressed "to unite our voices to heaven" and to pray worldwide" with the prayer that the Lord ...
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  27 March 2020
  AFRICA/NIGERA - Streets deserted and Masses broadcast on TV: Nigerian Christians in the face of the coronavirus Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - "The authorities of the State of Lagos, as well as of other Nigerian States in which the spread of coronavirus is more threatening (the greatest concentration is in the southwest of the Country, e ...
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  27 March 2020
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Mgr. Angelo Moreschi, Apostolic Vicar of Gambella has died due to Covid-19: a life for the mission in Africa Brescia (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicar of Gambella (Ethiopia), Mgr. Angelo Moreschi, SDB, died in the night between 24 and 25 March, in Brescia (Italy), due to the coronavirus infection. He was a guest at the Sale ...