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  28 July 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Increasing violence in North Kivu against civilians, also committed by soldiers and police Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) – Kidnappings, arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions, as well as rape and sexual violence, torture. These are crimes committed against the person in the Territory of Rutshuru, in the provinc ...
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  28 July 2021
  AMERICA/NICARAGUA - A day of silence and prayer for peace and reconciliation for Nicaraguans on July 31 Managua (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes, Archbishop of Managua, urged the faithful to live a "Day of silence and prayer" on Saturday July 31, the date that commemorates the first anniversary of the act o ...
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  28 July 2021
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Beit Sahour, work has begun to build a reception center in the "Shepherds' Field" Beit Sahour (Agenzia Fides) - The "Shepherds' Field", included in the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, is one of the places most dear to the Christian memory of the birth of Jesus. In that locality, according to traditio ...
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  27 July 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - 36 years after the murder of Father Ramin: by following his example, we renew our commitment to the poor and creation Ji-Paraná (Agenzia Fides) - Father Ezechiele Ramin, a Comboni missionary (MCCJ), from Padua (Italy), arrived in Brazil in 1983, in the diocese of Ji Paraná, which includes the central part of the State of Rondônia and ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - There are 145 cases of violence against Christians in the first half of 2021: "Anti-conversion laws" are worrying New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - In the first half of 2021 (from January to June) 145 cases of violence against Christians in India were documented: as reported in a note sent to Agenzia Fides by the Commission for Religious ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - State of emergency extended due to Coronavirus: between uncertainty and worry, missionaries do not stop Lamphun (Agenzia Fides) - "In the province many villages have been completely closed. The cathedral is closed in Chiangmai as well as all schools. There was also an outbreak in the interdiocesan seminary, 11 seminarians ...
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  27 July 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - "Women pray that the sun never goes down, because jihadists attack during the night" Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The women of the community pray that the sun, the light, remain as long as possible because now they are afraid of darkness", says to Agenzia Fides Fr. Mauro Armanino, missionary of the Society ...
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  27 July 2021
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - Bishops: "the sudden dismissal of prosecutor Sandoval, illegal and arbitrary, has caused irreparable damage to the country" Guatemala City (Agenzia Fides) - "The sudden dismissal of prosecutor Sandoval, according to authoritative men and women of law, was illegal and arbitrary. We embrace the protest of citizens in warning that this fact indi ...
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  27 July 2021
  ASIA/JAPAN - During the Olympic Games marked by the pandemic, the urgency is "to take care of oneself and others" Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "The most widespread attitude among the population of Japan was the request to cancel or postpone the Olympics, due to the pandemic, for fear of an increase in infections. The situation we are exp ...
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  27 July 2021
  AFRICA/TUNISIA: The President suspends the government and takes all powers. Archbishop Antoniazzi: "the population supports him" Tunis (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed to suspend the legislature and assume full powers "was welcomed with relief by the majority of the population, exhausted by a situation that seemed ...
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  26 July 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops of Veracruz: "Lawmakers have an ethical obligation to be well informed and to listen to the cry of those who elected them" Veracruz (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholic Bishops of the eight dioceses of Veracruz contemplate with dismay the path that some legislators have just taken in favor of the culture of death", they write in their message, si ...
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  26 July 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - The Bishops. "It is never too late to stop the violence, the only way forward is peace and reconciliation" Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - "It saddens our hearts hearing about war while we all would like to hear about peace and reconciliation", said Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE) in a statement published at t ...
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  26 July 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Catholic community offers itself in the care of Covid patients and notes the sacrifice of the first Catholic priest Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Boniface Murmu, 66-year-old parish priest of the parish of Lohanipara in the diocese of Dinajpur is the first Catholic priest who died on July 10 from Covid-19, which hit Bangladesh hard. His ...
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  26 July 2021
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Your mask protects me, mine protects you": the warning of missionaries alarmed by the spread of Covid-19 Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "The use of the mask as a tool to protect against Coronavirus is essential, even if it is very uncomfortable to wear for a long time during the day. It serves to protect myself and others", ...
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  26 July 2021
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Thirty-four new priests from the diocese of Vinh, who will also be 'fidei donum' missionaries in other territories Vinh (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a day of great joy, a day of great blessing in the diocese of Vinh, which rejoices for 34 new ordained priests who will also be missionaries, where the Lord will call them to proclaim and be ...