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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ( ...
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  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, ...
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  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", ...
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  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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  16 June 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Luxor hospital asks Egyptian Christians to give their 'tithe' Luxor (Agenzia Fides) - "Donate your tithe to help cancer patients, and remember that tithing is a sacred duty for every Christian": the fundraising campaign promoted by al Shefaa Orman Hospital in Luxor, a non-state hos ...
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  16 June 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The 80th National Council of the PMS has opened: clergy and laity called to the responsibility of instilling the missionary spirit Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "It is impossible for us to remain silent about what we have seen and heard": the 80th National Council of the Pontifical Mission Societies of the Coast opened yesterday, June 15, around the the ...
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  15 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Elections: waiting for results; the Church invites us to be united and be responsible Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The second round of the 2021 general elections was held in Peru on Sunday, June 6 and to date, after more than a week, the official results are not yet known. The National Office of Electoral Proce ...
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  15 June 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The International Criminal Court: a complete investigation into the "war on drugs" Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "Judge Fatou Bensouda, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), on the eve of the conclusion of her mandate, has called for a full investigation into the killings in the so-cal ...
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  15 June 2021
  AFRICA/ERITREA - A nun is the new General Secretary of the Bishops' Conference: "I ask for wisdom and insight" Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - "When Solomon became king, he did not ask the Lord for wealth and power, but for wisdom and insight to guide the people of God", said Sister Tsegereda Yonanne of the Comboni Missionary Sisters (C ...
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  15 June 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Cardinal Yeom: Bishop You to the Congregation of the Clergy is "a great gift" Seoul (Agenzia Fides) – The fact that the Bishop of Daejeon, Lazzaro You Heung-sik, was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy by Pope Francis is "a great gift for Korean Catholics and for the faithful fr ...
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  15 June 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Novena to invoke the end of the pandemic and the beatification of Bishop Shaw, great missionary of Chaco Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - In the church of the Paraguayan Chaco and in thirty other places in the country, a Novena is being held to call for the end of the pandemic, as requested by Pope Francis, and for the beatificat ...
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  15 June 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The law on the right to water reaches Parliament, "people's lives are at stake" warns Cardinal Rosa Chavez San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, in his usual Sunday press conference, said he hopes that the initiative of the water law that the government will present contains the progress ma ...