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  24 June 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Solidarity commitment of the Malaysian Church to fight the pandemic Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The Malaysian Catholic Bishops' Conference (CBCM) has provided for the donation of one million Malaysian rupees (approximately US $ 241,000) to the anti-COVID-19 Solidarity Fund, launched b ...
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  24 June 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Violence and destruction in Tombura County: : the local Church's call for peace Tombura Yambio (Agenzia Fides) - "Nobody knows what the real reasons are for the clashes that are taking place in our County of Tombura and Ri-Yubu", reports to Agenzia Fides Mgr. Eduardo Hijboro Kussala, bishop of the d ...
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  24 June 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishops of the Pacific and the south-western region: "It is time for significant changes, in justice and reconciliation" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The situation of the population of African origin, indigenous and mestizo living in the territories of the Pacific and south-western Colombia, continues to worry the Pastors of the Church present ...
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  24 June 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - No to the reinstatement of the death penalty: the Church supports human dignity and the option for life Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Every person is precious as he is created in the image and likeness of God. Therefore, we firmly and unequivocally oppose the attempts of the current Congress to restore the death penalty in our ...
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  24 June 2021
  AFRICA/MALI - Hostages of Ségué parish released, including parish priest Fr. Dougnon Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Léon Dougnon, parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes in Ségué, kidnapped on June 21 on the road that connects Ségué to San, in the Mopti region, in central Mali (see Fides, 23/6/2021) ha ...
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  AFRICA/GHANA - Appointment of Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as bishop of the diocese of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, the Reverend John Baptist Attakruh, of the clergy of Sekondi-Takoradi, until now apostolic administrator s ...
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  23 June 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - The generosity of the Spanish for the missions, in a year marked by the difficulties of the pandemic Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - At the end of the financial year, the National Direction of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Spain presented the "Activity Report 2020", which reports what the PMS have done in Spain in ...
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  23 June 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Mgr. Lazzaro You Heung-sik: "The Pope's visit to North Korea would be a turning point for peace" Daejeon (Agenzia Fides) - He is the first Korean bishop in the Roman Curia: Lazarus You Heung-sik, 69, was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy by Pope Francis. He was ordained a priest for the diocese ...
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  23 June 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The Bishops: "Today more than ever, our societies need peacemakers" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "After celebrating one of the most significant electoral processes in our history, we call on everyone, regardless of the results of the votes, to build a future, based on the ability to wor ...
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  23 June 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Synod to elect the new Patriarch of Cilicia of the Catholic Armenians begins Bzommar (Agenzia Fides) - On the morning of Wednesday, June 23, the Synod of Bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church, called to elect the successor of the Armenian Catholic Patriarch Krikor Bedros XX Ghabroyan, who died ...
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  23 June 2021
  AFRICA/MALI - "The parish priest and the faithful perhaps kidnapped to be used as human shields" Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "Perhaps the priest and the faithful who accompanied him were kidnapped, at least initially, to serve as human shields by an armed group chased by the army and fleeing towards the border with Bur ...
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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Oxygen concentrators from Spain to the Peruvian forest Toledo (Agenzia Fides) - The Spanish Archdiocese of Toledo has sent three oxygen concentrators (small machines that obtain oxygen from ambient air) to Peru, to treat patients with Covid-19. The Pastoral Care of Health an ...
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  22 June 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Evangelization and dialogue with Buddhists in the north of the country, for the common good Bangkok (Agenzia Fides) - "It is important to continue the dialogue of life between Catholics and Buddhists in Thailand", says Mgr. Anthony Weradet Chaiseri, Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng, in the north-eastern region o ...
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  22 June 2021
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - A missionary: "Alongside the people in a local Church that is taking its first steps" Foya (Agenzia Fides) - In many countries of the African continent young people have few prospects and often live by expedients. In Foya, in a remote corner of Liberia, the situation is no different. "The environment is d ...
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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - The ministries of the Word and the Eucharist conferred to five members of the Kichwa indigenous communities Puyo (Agenzia Fides) - As part of his pastoral visit to the indigenous communities of Kichwa, settled in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, the Apostolic Vicar of Puyo, Monsignor Rafael Cob, conferred the ministry of the ...