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  28 August 2021
  VATICAN - Father Jeyaraj: "The way to peace is through justice and overcoming inequality" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "The importance of fraternity is best understood when hearing the cry of those who live in situations where this fraternity does not exist, that is, the poor, the needy, the victims of wars ...
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  28 August 2021
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Election of the new patriarch: Armenian Catholic bishops will meet in the Vatican from September 20th Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - The Armenian Catholic Bishops of the dioceses in the Middle East and in the countries of the Armenian Diaspora will meet in Rome from September 20th to elect their new Patriarch. This was confirm ...
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  28 August 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Catholics plant a million trees in the spirit of Laudato Sì Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - As part of the "Laudato Sì" Year and on the occasion of the centenary of the "founder of the nation" and the year in which Bangladesh celebrates 50 years of independence, the country's Catholics ...
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  27 August 2021
  AMERICA/PUERTO RICO - Bishops express themselves unequivocally: Catholic moral teaching is not a pretext for opponents of vaccinations San Yuan (Agenzia Fides) - So far, 4,459,946 people around the world have died of Covid-19. In Puerto Rico, 2,742 people have died and a total of 164,179 have been infected. And those numbers continue to rise, as do hosp ...
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  27 August 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Fasting and penance for 40 days amid the pandemic Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic community of Zamboanga, on the island of Mindanao, in the southern Philippines, will experience 40 days of fasting and penance as the country continue sto struggle with the Covid-19 ...
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  27 August 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Patriarch warns young people about loss of humanity through social media Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - "One sociologist said: With the invention of the mobile phone, the era of humanity came to an end. And this is a serious matter: we have started to measure our humanity with technological tools, b ...
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  27 August 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - No right to healthfor Rohingya in Covid-19 pandemic Sittwe (Agenzia Fides) - The authorities in Myanmar have so far excluded the Muslim Rohingya minority from vaccination programs against Covid-19 and denied them health care and the right to health. The Rohingya live in d ...
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  27 August 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop of Tombura-Yambio warns of “hate messages” on social media Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "There are too many hate messages on social media", denounced His Exc. Mgr. Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala Bishop of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan, in a statement sent to Agenzia Fides, in which he stigmati ...
• 27 August 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Appointment of the Rector of the "Sant'Alberto" Regional Seminary in the Archdiocese of Ranchi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 6, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed rev. Ajay Kumar Xalxo, of the clergy of the diocese of Jashpur as Rec ...
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  26 August 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - The beatification process for Gertrude Detzel, missionary in the Gulag, opens Karaganda (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Kazakhstan has officially opened the diocesan phase of the beatification process of Gertrude Detzel, a lay Catholic, who "through her fervent faith and example of life, ...
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  26 August 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Violence in Orissa 13 years ago: Christians in Orissa call for justice again on the occasion of the commemoration Bhubaneswar (Agenzia Fides) - Many Indian lay people, priests, nuns, academics, Christian leaders, lawyers and believers of other religions celebrated the 13th "Day of Remembrance" on August 25, dedicated to the victims ...
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  26 August 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - The movement of Muqtada al Sadr relaunches the campaign to return houses and land illegally stolen from Christians and Mandeans Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Thanks to the campaign of the Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr, more than eighty properties - land and houses - have been returned to their rightful owners, including mostly Christians, citizens an ...
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  26 August 2021
  AFRICA - Attacks in the Sahel are increasing: the bishops of Niger and Burkina Faso express concern Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - The attacks by jihadist groups are increasing in the countries of the Sahel, especially in the so-called triangle between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso (see Fides, 20/8/2021). In Burkina Faso ...
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  26 August 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Bishops on the division of the country: "We need reconciliation" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - In their joint message of August 25th, the Peruvian bishops affirmed that they "share the suffering and great uncertainty that our beloved country is experiencing". In this situation, they invite u ...
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  26 August 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - Cardinal Brenes invites us to comply with the coronavirus rules Managua (Agenzia Fides) - "Aware of the critical health situation we are facing, I invite you, with faith and trust in Divine Providence, with serenity and great responsibility, not to let your guard down in observing th ...