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18 June 2021
ASIA/MYANMAR - The army accused of war crimes against civilians; the Church: respect human dignity
Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - "There is great discouragement and sadness. We live with great concern for the violence that continues and for the civil war that is spreading. The episode of the destruction of the village of ...
18 June 2021
ASIA/HOLY LAND - Young Christians from different Churches pray together for peace in Jerusalem
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Hymns, songs, invocations, Gospel readings, prayers of intercession, and at the end the prayer of the Our Father recited in Syriac: these were the simple gestures of spiritual devotion and beg ...
17 June 2021
ASIA/MYANMAR - Catholic priest detained by the army in the State of Chin released and unharmed
Hakha (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Michael Aung Ling, a Burmese Catholic priest of the diocese of Hakha, detained yesterday by the regular army on suspicion of supporting the resistance forces in the town of Kanpetlet, in the ...
17 June 2021
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - "The law is sovereign and not the will of men": the Bishops after the latest arrests of opponents
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, highlighted yesterday, Wednesday, June 16, that "there are no conditions" for "free and fair elections" in Nicaragua, and called for the "immediate rel ...
17 June 2021
AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Car bomb attack in Cucuta: "nothing justifies these senseless and blind acts", the Church calls for reconciliation
Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "Following the teaching of the Church, the Bishops proclaim that nothing justifies these foolish and blind acts, which deeply wound human dignity and constitute a very serious offense against all ...
17 June 2021
ASIA/ISRAEL - Jesuit David Neuhaus: the new government will confirm strong ties with Christian Zionist evangelicals
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - There is a new government in Israel, but the coalition that supports it "has very little that holds it together", and groups forces with antithetical positions regarding "the Palestinian quest ...
17 June 2021
AFRICA/NIGERIA - "Do not repress the demands of young people for justice and democracy", says the Archbishop of Abuja
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "Do not repress young people with their reasonable requests". This is the appeal launched by His Exc. Mgr. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Abuja, in his homily on Sunday, June 13, in which he ...
17 June 2021
EUROPE/ITALY - Interreligious prayer meeting for Myanmar in Rome
Rome (Agenzia Fides) - On Friday, June 18, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Bahàì representatives are invited to pray, in their own way, for Myanmar. The appointment is at 3 pm in streaming, and at 7 pm i ...
17 June 2021
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Safe delivery for mothers and well-assisted children in the new maternal wing of St. Theresa hospital, in Nzara
Nzara (Agenzia Fides) - "A relief for expectant mothers who can now be assured of safe delivery in a hospital where both the child and the mother will be well taken care of", these are the words of the bishop of Tombura ...
16 June 2021
ASIA/INDONESIA - The Camillians in Flores: keeping missionary commitment alive and looking to the future with hope
Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - The invisible Covid-19 does not seem to have stopped and hindered the vocational enthusiasm of many young people who intend to prepare themselves to become future apostles of the Gospel not only ...
16 June 2021
AMERICA/BRAZIL - Covid: almost 500 thousand deaths, the prayer of the Church and protests in the face of the mismanagement of the pandemic
Minas (Agenzia Fides) - Brazil is approaching the tragic threshold of 500 thousand victims of the new coronavirus. In this context of pain and the need for hope and comfort, the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil ( ...
16 June 2021
ASIA/MYANMAR - A Catholic priest in the Chin State arrested by the military
Hakha (Agenzia Fides) – Fr. Michael Aung Ling, parish priest in the Catholic church of St. Joseph in Kanpetlet, a pleasant tourist resort in the diocese of Hakha, in the Burmese state of Chin, on the border with India, ...
16 June 2021
AMERICA/VENEZUELA - The parish priest in times of pandemic: joint meeting of Bishops and priests
Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) has summoned the representatives of the priests of the various ecclesiastical circumscriptions to the II joint Virtual Meeting of Bishops and Priests, t ...
16 June 2021
AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - "Aid to the displaced should also go to the local population to avoid tensions" asks the Apostolic Administrator of Pemba
Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "The interventions must integrate aspects of good coexistence between the displaced and the local population. The aid should not go only to the displaced, totally ignoring the local population", ...
16 June 2021
ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Stop the war: "There is no true religion that invites you to kill"
Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "Peace is a religious obligation, a political necessity, a request of the whole nation". Thus reads one of the messages of the national “StopAfghanWar” campaign. Launched two days ago on socia ...
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