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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 ...
• 21 June 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "Do not leave refugees behind in Covid-19 vaccinations, none of us are safe until we are all safe" Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - Exclusion of refugees from COVID-19 responses and vaccinations, show that we still have not fully appreciated or understood the wisdom in the saying "none of us are safe until we are all sa ...
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  21 June 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Truce in Chin State: displaced people begin to return to their homes, priests engaged in assistance Hakha (Agenzia Fides) - After weeks of intense armed clashes, there is a truce in the Chin State between the regular army and local fighters of the "Chinland Defense Forces" (CDF). This was confirmed to Agenzia Fides b ...
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  21 June 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - The Archbishop of Mandalay: "It is a real tragedy. We are grateful to Pope Francis for the support" Mandalay (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very grateful to Pope Francis. When the Pontiff speaks, the people of Myanmar feel very encouraged and moved. Not only Catholics, but also people of other religions. It is a very import ...
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  19 June 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The murder of Friar Juan Antonio Orozco must not go unpunished, "may his death be a seed of hope" Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - "The systematic violence experienced in the Mexican national territory deriving from the activity of organized crime cannot be made invisible; as well as the little or no commitment and prep ...
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  19 June 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - An important moment for the country in an attempt at democratic, free and fair elections Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - On June 21, Ethiopia will hold parliamentary and regional elections and a referendum for the creation of an eleventh regional state. The vote was originally supposed to take place on June 5 ...
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  19 June 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Ignatian Year: Jesuits celebrate a special time of renewal "to put Christ at the center" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The conversion of Saint Ignatius does not concern only the past, but also the present and the future. It is an opportunity for renewal and rediscovery of Ignatian roots. It is an opportunity to st ...
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  19 June 2021
  AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - After almost twenty years, the Catechetical Formation Center for families-catechists from the rural world reopens Bissau (Agenzia Fides) - On June 15, after years of closure, the “Blessed Isidoro Bakanja” Catechetical Formation Center finally reopened its doors, with a ceremony presided over by Bishop José Lampra Cá, Apostolic ...