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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 ...
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  22 June 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Let us strengthen national unity by fighting against the negative values that threaten it", exhort the Bishops Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are positive signs of strengthening national unity, but alongside these there are others that threaten the cohesion of the Country, say the Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in ...
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  22 June 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The lay faithful, evangelizers in the suburbs Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "There is an urgent need to reach our parish faithful, stay in contact with them, pray with them and make them feel that the Church cares for them and is close to them in every need or difficult ...
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  22 June 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - US bishops urged to find ways to welcome, serve immigrants Texas (Agenzia Fides) - Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, encouraged prelates meeting via Zoom for the U.S. bishops' virtual spring assembly to find ways to welcome what may be a growing number of immigrants to the ...
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  22 June 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Coptic Churches participate in the subscriptions for the celebrations of Eid al Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Daily coexistence between Muslim and Christian communities in Countries with an Islamic majority is often marked by problems and accidents, but it is also strewn with gestures of mutual generosity ...
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  21 June 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - With two new priests, the Burmese community in Italy remembers "the suffering homeland" and prays for Aung San Suu Kyi Monza (Agenzia Fides) - "We remember Aung San Suu Kyi in our prayers so that with the blessing of God she will have good health and the wishes of her heart come true", says Sister Beatrice, a Burmese nun living in Italy ...
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  21 June 2021
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - The Bishop of La Ceiba on the Zedes: "let's defend the common good, let's defend territorial sovereignty and our values" La Ceiba (Agenzia Fides) - The project for the establishment of the "Work and Development Areas", Zede in Spanish (Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico), which affects several regions of Honduras, but above all the de ...
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  21 June 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Half a million lives lost due to Covid: call for national unity in defense of life and democracy Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - "If, on the one hand, the death of so many requires respectful silence and the prayers of those who have faith, on the other hand we ask, once again, for national unity in defense of life and d ...
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  21 June 2021
  AFRICA/ERITREA - "No to the closure or nationalization of the remaining Catholic schools" denounce the Bishops Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "We are deeply saddened and hurt by the measures that the government is adopting by force, or has already done so, taking away from us the educational and health institutions that legitimately be ...
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  21 June 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - The Synod of Maronite Bishops relaunches the proposal on "Lebanese neutrality" promoted by Patriarch Raï Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) - The Synod of Bishops of the Maronite Church, as a whole, confirms its full support for the proposal – put forward by Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï - of a formal act that formalizes Lebanon's ...