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  8 July 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops after the assassination of President Moise: "Choose fraternal coexistence in the interest of all and in the interest of Haiti!" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "Whatever it is, life must be respected from conception to natural death. That is why we strongly condemn the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. As missionaries we appeal to the u ...
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  8 July 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Archbishop Valles: "Faith is firm in difficult times"; Bishop David, new President of the Bishops' Conference Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "My memory tells me that we have all walked together, we have walked with the Lord and with Our Lady for the past 500 years. My memory tells me that we have truly been blessed with gifts so that ...
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  8 July 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Day of Native Vocations: "May no vocation be lost due to lack of economic resources" Quito (Ecuador) - The Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Ecuador have organized a series of online activities in this month of July, as part of the celebration of the National Day of Prayer and Solidarity in favor of ...
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  8 July 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Camillian Missionaries at the forefront to give concrete answers to the bewildered population Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - A few hours ago, the news spread in the local press that the Haitian police had killed four "mercenaries" and arrested two others, believed to be responsible for the ambush that killed fo ...
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  8 July 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - New appeal from the Bishop of Tombura-Yambio: it is urgent to help the victims of recent violence Juba (Agenzia Fides) - "Thousands of people have lost their lives, others have been displaced and live in a very bad situation of lack of shelter, food, water and many others", denounces His Exc. Mgr. Barani Eduardo Hiib ...
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  8 July 2021
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Icon of the Holy Family begins its pilgrimage among the hopes and afflictions of the peoples of the Middle East Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The journey of the Icon of the Holy Family has begun from Jerusalem which in the coming months will make a long pilgrimage to Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries, uniting with the commo ...
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  8 July 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - The local Church remembers Father Adolfo L'Imperio, a missionary in Bangladesh for 50 years Dinajpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic diocese of Dinajpur and the entire Church in Bangladesh remember with joy and gratitude the life and work of Father Adolfo L'Imperio, priest and missionary, member of the Pontifica ...
• 7 July 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Abakaliki Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On July 6, 2021, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Abakaliki, Nigeria, presented by Bishop Michael Nnachi Okoro. At the same time the Holy ...
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  7 July 2021
  AFRICA/MALI - Four years and 5 months after the kidnapping, there is still no news of Sister Gloria Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - Time passes, inexorable and cruel: 4 years and 5 months ago Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez, a Colombian nun from the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, fell into the hands ...
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  7 July 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Bishops elect their new Presidency and pay tribute to the 148 pastoral workers who died of Covid Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Bogotá, Monsignor Luis José Rueda Aparicio, has been elected President of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia (CEC) for the three-year period 2021-2024. The election took pl ...
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  7 July 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Haitian immigrants forbidden to take the bus or ask for rides, the Church welcomes them into the communities Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - "We welcome immigrants in our temples, in the churches of our communities in Quebradas, Cifuentes and San José de Mata Guineo. How sad it is that they cannot travel by bus or that they cann ...
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  7 July 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Appeal from a Catholic politician: "No" to rules and job advertisements that discriminate and dishonor religious minorities Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "In public job postings for ecological operators and the cleaning of streets and sewers, reference is still made to the necessary requirement of 'reserved for non-Muslims'. This embarrasses me a ...
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  7 July 2021
  AFRICA/ESWANTINI - Appeals for dialogue to overcome the crisis are multiplying Mbabane (Agenzia Fides) - The alarms of international organizations are multiplying over the situation in the small southern African state of Eswantini (formerly Swaziland). After the appeal for reconciliation launched a ...
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  7 July 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Synod convened to elect the new Patriarch of Catholic Armenians without results Bzommar (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Synod of Armenian Catholic Bishops, gathered from the evening of June 22 at the Lebanese Convent of Our Mother of Bzommar in order to elect their new Patriarch, has not so far managed t ...
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  7 July 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - The Asian Bishops: Father Swamy is like Gandhi, "Saint of the poor", who died "as a true disciple of Christ" New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - "With deep anguish and sorrow, we mourn the death of the martyr of the marginalized people, Father Stan Swamy, SJ. His last month in custody on a hospital bed till the last moments is the most ...