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  26 February 2021
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REP. - Bishops address the issue of fraternity on Independence Day Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - "What does fraternity mean in the Dominican Republic today?" The Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic is addressing this question in its message for Independence Day on February 2 ...
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  26 February 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Civil disobedience puts government authorities in trouble: Christians pray for a peaceful solution Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "There is determination but also concern among the people during these hours. The State is in crisis because of the actions of the Civil Disobedience Movement. State offices are closed or not wor ...
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  26 February 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - At least 300 students of the GGSS Jangebee Secondary School in the state of Zamfara, in the north-west of Nigeria, were kidnapped by gunmen on the night of 25 February. This was stated by the teac ...
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  26 February 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarchate: a prayer to entrust Pope Francis' trip "in the hands of the Lord" Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - The Chaldean Patriarchate has just released through its official channels a prayer to place Pope Francis' next trip to Iraq (5-8 March) in the hands of the Lord, with the supplication that the H ...
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  26 February 2021
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - Mutual solidarity, rediscovery of fundamental human values: Christians and the pandemic Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) - Covid-19, the devastating floods in some areas of Hirshebelle, Southwest, Jubbaland and Puntland, and a new plague of locusts were the three factors that triggered the crisis and aggravated the ...
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  26 February 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Reflection on the Pontifical Missionary Union at the center of the annual meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - The XVII Meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Spain has begun and this time it is taking place in digital form in view of the health situation. Its reflection relates mainly to one of t ...
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  25 February 2021
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Church calls for dialogue between government and doctors on strike and arrival of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - A total of 500,000 doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm were delivered to Bolivia on February 24th to vaccinate medical staff and the population at risk in Bolivia. As confirmed by the Bolivian ...
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  25 February 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Parties divided before the proposal for a UN Conference on the Lebanese crisis launched by the Maronite Patriarch Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Lebanese political forces are beginning to manifest different and sometimes conflicting interpretations and positions in the face of the proposal - formulated in recent weeks by the Maronite ...
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  25 February 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh approves the anti-religious conversion law Lucknow (Agenzia Fides) - Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state in northern India with a population of 204 million, approved yesterday, February 24, the bill which bans religious conversion by fraudulent means or relate ...
• 25 February 2021
  NORTHERN EUROPE - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 15 November 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Ivan Sovic National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ...
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  25 February 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Call of churches to government against forced repatriation of Burmese immigrants Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - We must not participate in the "refoulement of refugees", by repatriating Myanmar nationals who have taken refuge in Malaysia in a coordinated manner with the armed forces of Myanmar. This ...
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  25 February 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The destruction of the church of the Holy Family of Kikwari denied Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "At this time of strong ethnic and religious tensions, it may happen that there are people who spread false news to further increase tensions", says to Agenzia Fides Father Patrick Tor Alumuku, Di ...
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  25 February 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - Missionaries and small Catholic communities in the village of Papae, a bath of humanity and spirituality Lamphun (Agenzia Fides) - "The Catholics in this area are only a few dozen - writes to Agenzia Fides Father Ferdinando Pistore, one of the Fidei donum priests of Trivénétie who serve in a territory coinciding with the ...
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  25 February 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 30 years of missions in Venezuela and abroad for Venezuelan missionaries Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Department of Indigenous and Afro-Venezuelan Missions, in collaboration with the Pontifical Mission Societies in Venezuela, is relaunching the program known as "Relevo Misionero" (Missionary ...
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  25 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Testimony of the Bishop of Uvira on the prevailing insecurity in particular due to the struggle for land grabbing Uvira (Agenzia Fides) - "What happened on February 22 in Goma, with the assassination of the Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio and the policeman who accompanied him, only confirms what we have been saying for some time: ...