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• 20 July 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Andraws Fahmi Abdou Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On June 15, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr Andraws Fahmi Abdoua as National Director of the Pontifical Miss ...
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  20 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Massacre on the eve of the Islamic holiday. Patriarch Sako writes to "Muslim brothers": fratricidal struggles open the gates of hell Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "We have two options: either we unite and cooperate so that our country recovers completely, or we persist in perpetuating our struggles, and open - God forbid - the gates of hell". This is the ...
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  19 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops: "Real solutions are not necessary, on the contrary, we need each other" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "In the current moment that Colombia is living, let's walk together! Despite the fact that we feel we are in the midst of a storm, let us listen to the voice of the Lord, 'Do not be afraid' (Is 4 ...
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  19 July 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Covid spreads amid vaccine shortages and severe economic repercussions Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Uganda is experiencing a second lockdown. After the first full closure in spring 2020, the government ordered a new quarantine. Officially, the health authorities of Kampala declare more than 88 ...
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  19 July 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - 'Greening the School': the Bishops' project continues despite the pandemic Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - Preserving and safeguarding the environment is the objective of the "Greening the School" project that the Education Commission at the Catholic Secretariat of the Uganda Bishops' Conference (UEC ...
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  19 July 2021
  AMERICA/CUBA - The Church continues to be a presence of hope and reconciliation, in the midst of a wounded people and deprived of fundamental rights Havana (Agenzia Fides) - Solidarity with the Cuban people due to the difficult social situation they are experiencing continues to be expressed at different levels. Yesterday at the Angelus Pope Francis, who visited the ...
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  19 July 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "It's time to save lives": Cardinal Bo's appeal for "Martyrs' Day", in the midst of the pandemic Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, July 19, is Martyrs' Day. Their blood was shed to make this country a great country. As the COVID spirals out of control, inflicting fear, anxiety and death, the only way we can pay homa ...
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  19 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Attack on nuns, closure of the emergency department of a Catholic hospital Mokama (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Department of the Catholic Hospital of Nazareth in Mokama, southeast of Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, was closed after the attack, on July 16, suffered by the nuns who work t ...
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  19 July 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: "Lebanese people are similar to a flock without a shepherd". And he entrusts the nation to St. Charbel Diman (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese people, hungry and bent by the crisis, appear similar to a flock without a shepherd. And in the state of prostration in which they find themselves, also due to the inadequacy of their ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Solidarity of Catholic organizations around the world to support the nation in the second wave of Covid-19 New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While Southwest India, in the Kerala region, records a high number of coronavirus infections (more than 13 thousand cases per day) both in rural and urban areas, and while the mortality rate i ...
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  17 July 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - "The most excruciating poverty coexists with the most inconceivable wealth": Social Week 2021 Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - Social Week 2021 has ended in Argentina, an event that traditionally involves the main protagonists of the country's business world along with the realities of the Catholic world, particula ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - National prayer for the end of the pandemic Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "We behave in the best possible way, respecting the protocols, and for the rest we entrust ourselves to God who always has His unfathomable plans, which human beings do not understand. We believ ...
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  17 July 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - The mission of the Friars Minor in the world: "Living the Gospel in fraternal communion, building bridges of dialogue among all peoples" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "It is necessary to identify concrete ways ways of 'going out' on mission, responding with joy to the Lord who calls us to conversion, bearing witness to the Gospel according to the authentic Franc ...
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  17 July 2021
  AFRICA/eSWATINI - The Bishop of Manzini: "it is the most serious crisis that can be remembered, no one should expect quick responses" Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - The small African state of eSwatini, known until 2018 as Swaziland, is located in southern Africa, on the eastern flank of the Dragons Mountains, and borders Mozambique to the east and South Afr ...
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  17 July 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako: elections at risk of boycott, even Christians could desert the polls Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The risk of fraud and the experience of having been "robbed" of the quota of parliamentary seats reserved by the electoral system for candidates from Christian communities will push many Christi ...