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  12 January 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Bishops: "The protection of one's own life and the health of others is a moral duty" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - "The global Covid-19 pandemic is causing suffering, uncertainty, fear and fatigue in the entire population. We think of the victims of this pandemic, their families and those who are currently su ...
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  12 January 2021
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Legislative elections: Nur Otan party of former president Nazarbayev wins Nur Sultan (Agenzia Fides) - "After the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, it was believed that Kazakhstan could open itself to the first democratic concessions on a political and economic level and emulate the so-call ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/KIRGHIZSTAN - Elections and constitutional referendum: the country towards presidentialism with leader Japarov Bishkek (Agenzia Fides) - "It is not surprising that Sadyr Japarov won the Kyrgyz presidential elections with almost 80% of the vote. What is significant, however, is the fact that yesterday the constitutional referendum ...
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  11 January 2021
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Elections, the Bishops: "No to police violence, yes to dialogue and national reconciliation" Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - "No to the abuse of the authorities and police violence against innocent citizens and legitimate opposition representatives" warn the Bishops of Uganda, in their pastoral letter for the presiden ...
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  11 January 2021
  AFRICA/NIGER - The number of displaced people is increasing after the massacres of January 2 Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - The terror sown by the twin attacks on two villages in Niger on 2 January (see Fides 4/1/2021), have caused the flight of over 10,000 inhabitants in the region of Tillaberi, in the west. Accor ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - New violence in Araucania: appeal of the Bishop of Temuco, "only fraternity generates social peace" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - "These days our region, already deeply affected by the pandemic, poverty and lack of opportunities, polarization, failure to keep the promises made to the Mapuche people and the feeling of abando ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - The contribution of Catholic nurses to health assistance during the pandemic, a channel of God's love Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic nurses in Singapore, in this time of pandemic, are a valid and precious contribution, and it is an extraordinary channel for communicating God's love. This is what the Archdiocese ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Violations of the right to information and to the work of journalists denounced by the Archdiocese of Caracas Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - On January 9, the Third Session of the Ordinary Plenary Assembly of of the Episcopal Conference of Venezuela (CEV) took place digitally, during which the Archbishops and Bishops of the country w ...
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  11 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Publication of the slogan and logo of the Pope's apostolic visit to Iraq Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - "You are all Brothers": the expression of Jesus, taken from a verse of Matthew's Gospel ("As for you, do not be called 'Rabbi.' You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers", Mt 23, 8) has ...
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  11 January 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The nun kidnapped on January 8 released by kidnappers; dozens of acts of violence occur every day Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - According to information sent to Fides by the Secretary General of the Conference of Religious of Haiti, Father Gilbert Peltrop, Sister Dachoune Sévère, a religious of the Congregation ...
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  10 January 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Appeal of the Bishop of Anse-à-Veau/Miragoâne to pray after the kidnapping of a nun Carrefour (Agenzia Fides) - On the evening of Friday, 8 January, unknown persons kidnapped a nun of the Little Sisters of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus from the nuns' residence located at Brochette 99, Commune de Ca ...
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  9 January 2021
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Appeal of the Episcopate for the impartiality of the police in the face of an incandescent political and social crisis Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We hereby condemn in the strongest terms possible the killing of two citizens by the police who acted against their key mandate of safeguarding the lives of Zambians, irrespective of their polit ...
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  9 January 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Testimony of a missionary: "In times of pandemic, the first evangelization remains our starting point" Ebimpé (Agenzia Fides) - "The first evangelization always remains our starting point. We are also particularly involved in matters relating to justice and peace". Thus reports, in an interview with Agenzia Fides, Fath ...
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  9 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The feast of the Black Nazarene attracts thousands of faithful in prayer in Manila Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The pandemic and health protocols have not discouraged Catholics from meeting today, January 9, to pray and worship the "Black Nazarene", which is one of the most heartfelt devotions in the count ...
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  9 January 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The first Venezuelan Bishop to die of Covid-19 Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Friday 8 January 2021, His Excellency Monsignor Cástor Oswaldo Azuaje, OCD, Bishop of Trujillo, victim of Covid-19 died. As the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference informs, he is the fir ...