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  27 March 2020
  AFRICA/TOGO - Fight against coronavirus: follow government guidelines "for the good of all" Lomè (Agenzia Fides) - The Togolese government has closed schools, cities, borders and airports as preventive measures for the spread of Covid-19. The first case was confirmed at the beginning of March 2020. The respons ...
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  27 March 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - Covid-19: "What will happen will be catastrophic", testimony of a missionary Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "It is enough to see what is happening on the street, what will happen will be catastrophic, since the population lives its day-to-day life and does not have the essential tools to deal w ...
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  27 March 2020
  ASIA/IRAQ - The 4 activists of SOS Chrétiens d’Orient kidnapped in Baghdad on 20 January released Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - French authorities on Thursday 26 March said four aid workers of French Christian non-governmental organization SOS Chrétiens d’Orient were released. The four were missing since January 20. T ...
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  27 March 2020
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Cardinal D'Rozario: "Let us collaborate with the government to overcome the coronavirus pandemic" Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Being faithful collaborators of the government to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. This is what Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario, Archbishop of Dhaka has asked the faithful, who in a video message sen ...
• 27 March 2020
  AFRICA/MALI - Appointment of the Bishop of Mopti Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed His Exc. Mgr. Jean-Baptiste Tiama, currently Bishop of Sikasso, as Bishop of the Diocese of Mopti (Mali). (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 27/3/2020) ...
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  26 March 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - 14 Xaverian Missionaries have died in a month Parma (Agenzia Fides) - The 11 priests and the 3 religious of the Xaverian Missionaries who died in less than a month spent many years of their lives in mission land, announcing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in four contine ...
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  26 March 2020
  AMERICA - A map to reach the Amazon in a realistic way, where poverty and inequalities favor Covid 19 Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "The idea of offering a map responds to the work that the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM) has been carrying out for years: helping to understand the complexity of the Amazonian reality, its ...
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  26 March 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - The White Fathers: with the arrival of Covid-19, risks of epidemic and famine Bukavu (Agenzia Fides) - "The spread of the coronavirus is not dramatic, but we cannot underestimate it. We must put in place all possible precautions to avoid being infected and to help the population not to become infe ...
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  26 March 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Connection and compassion: Caritas at the forefront in the fight against the coronavirus New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Curbing the panic, helping the weakest, building trust: these are the action plans put in place by Carits India, at the forefront in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in India. This is ...
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  26 March 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - A Bishop: "Facing fear with a generous heart", to contain the impact of COVID-19 Tombura (Agenzia Fides) - "The health authorities of our Country urge us to stop all activities, close institutions, places of worship and schools. As people of faith we are called to face the fear of this moment, for th ...
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  26 March 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Coronavirus: in the face of the suspension of Masses, a parish priest in the streets with the Blessed Sacrament Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "In these dark times of confinement I thought that Jesus Christ cannot be confined, I decided that your parish priest should pass with the Holy Sacrament in the parish territory", said parish pr ...
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  26 March 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - COVID-19: the Holy Sepulcher closed, but liturgies continue to take place inside Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the measures taken to combat the infection of the coronavirus epidemic, the Israeli authorities also ordered the closure of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Wednes ...
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  25 March 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - "Today you are Don Orione, no longer with the cassock, but with your white coat" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "Don Orione inspires us to live this time of health and social emergency with seriousness, in full respect of the norms and public guidelines, but also with the fantasy of charity". This is what Fa ...
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  25 March 2020
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - On the 40th anniversary of San Romero, the testimony of the faithful through social media San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - El Salvador yesterday celebrated the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of San Oscar Arnulfo Romero, assassinated on March 24, 1980 in the chapel of the Divine Providence hospital while cele ...
• 25 March 2020
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - The country is unprepared to face the Coronavirus crisis Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "Afghanistan's health facilities are unable to deal with a pandemic like the Covid-19 pandemic. At the moment even the West is in difficulty, so we can only remotely imagine what could happen in a ...