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26 July 2021
ASIA/BANGLADESH - The Catholic community offers itself in the care of Covid patients and notes the sacrifice of the first Catholic priest
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Boniface Murmu, 66-year-old parish priest of the parish of Lohanipara in the diocese of Dinajpur is the first Catholic priest who died on July 10 from Covid-19, which hit Bangladesh hard. His ...
26 July 2021
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - "Your mask protects me, mine protects you": the warning of missionaries alarmed by the spread of Covid-19
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "The use of the mask as a tool to protect against Coronavirus is essential, even if it is very uncomfortable to wear for a long time during the day. It serves to protect myself and others", ...
26 July 2021
ASIA/VIETNAM - Thirty-four new priests from the diocese of Vinh, who will also be 'fidei donum' missionaries in other territories
Vinh (Agenzia Fides) - "It is a day of great joy, a day of great blessing in the diocese of Vinh, which rejoices for 34 new ordained priests who will also be missionaries, where the Lord will call them to proclaim and be ...
26 July 2021
ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Raï: a new government is needed by August 4. But the "Mikati solution" does not convince Christian political leaders
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - Everything possible must be done to give birth to a new Lebanese government by August 4, the day on which the first anniversary of the terrible explosion that devastated the Port of Beirut almost ...
26 July 2021
VATICAN - Universal prayer for Lebanon, consecrated to the Virgin Mary: 11 thousand connected online
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Lord, we consecrate to your heart and to the Heart of Mary, Our Lady of Lebanon, the Lebanese people and our leaders, our families, the suffering, all those in need. Donate to the Lebanese ...
24 July 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - Breaking the circle of human trafficking: "care can make a difference"
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The global network Talitha Kum, — which gathers more than 3,000 Catholic sisters and collaborators, launches the #CareAgainstTrafficking campaign in view of the World Day against Trafficking in P ...
24 July 2021
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Young people, "creative evangelizers" during the time of the pandemic
Kota Kinabalu (Agenzia Fides) - May young people be "creative evangelizers" during the time of the pandemic: this is the invitation expressed by Msgr. John Wong, Archbishop of Kota Kinabalu, speaking at the "Sabah 5" You ...
24 July 2021
AFRICA/NIGER - The religious of the Society of African Missions launch a new project to help children go back to school
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "We are in contact with the rural areas of the diocese of Niamey, in particular with the two areas most affected by terrorism: Makalondi, on the border with Burkina Faso and Dolbel, a region on t ...
24 July 2021
ASIA/LEBANON - One year after the explosion, Caritas Lebanon takes stock of the situation as well as aid
Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - One year after the tragic explosion in the port of Beirut, which killed more than 200 people, injured more than 7,500 and left about 300 people homeless, Caritas Lebanon has organized a Seminar d ...
24 July 2021
ASIA/SRI LANKA - Day of indigenous clergy and contribution to the Pontifical Society of St. Peter the Apostle
Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - "You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth and summoned from its far-off places, You whom I have called my servant, whom I have chosen and will not cast off": is the theme of the special ...
23 July 2021
ASIA/MYANMAR - The diocese of Pathein loses its Bishop due to Covid-19
Pathein (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. John Hsane Hgyi, Bishop of Pathein, in southern Myanmar, died of Covid-19 on July 22, at the age of 68. As the local Church reports to Fides, the Bishop suffered from diabetes and a week ag ...
23 July 2021
AFRICA/eSWATINI - The country remains calm, but the army is still present on the streets; the diocese reflects on "how to be a Church" amidst turmoil and Covid
Manzini (Agenzia Fides) - "As a diocese, on Monday 26 July we will be holding a diocesan presbyteral council meeting to reflect both on the present situation of unrest and on the constant impact of COVID19 has in our liv ...
23 July 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Bishop Carlassare: "There is great hope for 'my' South Sudan"
Vicenza (Agenzia Fides) - "I have no doubts about the desire to return to my South Sudan, people are waiting for me and, beyond the many problems, there is also great hope. And I want to be part of it". The violent attac ...
23 July 2021
AMERICA/PERU - "The Good Shepherd never abandons his sheep": a video on the testimony of Sister Aguchita, a missionary
Lima (Agenzia Fides) - "I belong to the Congregation of the Good Shepherd and the Good Shepherd never abandons his sheep": with these words the missionary Sister María Agustina Rivas, better known as "Aguchita", embarke ...
23 July 2021
OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - A Church with God as the epicenter among the challenges of evangelization
Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "There is nothing impossible when God is by our side", says Mgr. Rozario Menezes, SMM, in relation to the challenges of evangelization faced by the diocese of Lae, of which he has been bish ...
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