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17 July 2020
VATICAN - Assistance from the PMS Fund for the Covid emergency sent to Niger, Gambia and Zambia
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Niger extends for a large part in the Sahara desert and despite the lack of rain, the agro-pastoral sector is the almost exclusive source of livelihood for its inhabitants, who live in a si ...
17 July 2020
AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Bishop of Carapeguá denounces corruption and impunity in times of pandemic
Carapeguá (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of Carapeguá, Mgr. Celestino Ocampo, is saddened by the fact that during the pandemic, crime and corruption did not stop, "they are inseparable allies of impunity". This is what h ...
17 July 2020
AFRICA/MALI - Religious leaders launch an appeal for peace after last week's violent demonstrations
Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - "We are very concerned about the resumption of violence in Bamako. We take this opportunity to launch an appeal for peace, in light of all the damage caused. Mali does not deserve what is happeni ...
17 July 2020
AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Covid-19: concern over the increase in cases; for the Bishops "the health crisis reveals the importance of an efficient health structure"
Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - In Antananarivo the number of coronavirus-related deaths is increasing with eight of the ten victims reported by the operational command center for the fight against coronavirus. Another ca ...
17 July 2020
ASIA/IRAQ - Patriarch Sako to the government: a law on personal status is needed that respects the identity of Christians
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Christians in Iraq are not foreign guests from far away. The indigenous communities of the baptized have been rooted in the lands of Mesopotamia for millennia, and the Assyrian and Chaldean Chri ...
16 July 2020
AFRICA/NIGER - 22 months after the kidnapping of Fr. Gigi Maccalli, man who used "the weapon of peace"
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "It is blindly believed that only through the use of weapons and spilled blood one can achieve peace: what happens in the Sahel, with the dead, injured, displaced, refugees or kidnapped, is a tan ...
16 July 2020
AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Priest found dead in his church in Tucumán
Tucumán (Agenzia Fides) - A priest, Father Oscar Juárez, was found dead on Wednesday 15 July: he was handcuffed in the church of San Martín de Porres, in the capital of the province of Tucumán. Police are investigati ...
16 July 2020
AMERICA/NICARAGUA - The Archbishop of Managua postpones the feast of Santo Domingo, the feast of the capital, due to the pandemic
Managua (Agenzia Fides) - The archdiocese of Managua has suspended, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, any activity that promotes the gathering of people, such as processions, as well as the feast of Managua, which every year ...
16 July 2020
AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Mgr. Scarpellini has died: a great missionary who gave his whole life for the Bolivian Church
El Alto (Agenzia Fides) - "With deep sorrow we announce that Bishop Eugenio Scarpellini, Bishop of the diocese of El Alto, died on the morning of Wednesday 15 July, after the contagion from Covid-19", reports the Bishops ...
16 July 2020
OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA - The help of the Church to Rohingya refugees, between Covid-19 and natural disasters
Sydney (Agenzia Fides) – To provide information on the prevention of Covid-19 and offer basic sanitation in Cox’s Bazar area, Bangladesh, where over one million Rohingya ethnic refugees from Myanmar have camped is th ...
16 July 2020
ASIA/MALAYSIA - Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur to the faithful: "Stay safe and be holy"
Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "Stay safe and be holy": is the exhortation that Archbishop Julian Leow Beng Kim, at the head of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, addressed to the faithful while Malaysia is gradually easin ...
16 July 2020
AFRICA/EGYPT - Alarm of the Coptic Churches: there are those who give "false Bibles" and "false Gospels" contrary to the Christian faith
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Spokespersons of the Coptic Orthodox Church and the Coptic Catholic Church have both expressed concern about the growing spread of volumes distributed free of charge among the population, characte ...
16 July 2020
AFRICA/MALAWI - President asks citizens to join him in prayer and fasting to ask for God's help to defeat Covid-19
Lilongwe (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera, urged his compatriots to join him in fasting and prayer against the spread of coronavirus in the country. The President urged "all citizens and reside ...
16 July 2020
AFRICA/GHANA - Covid-19: the Archbishop of Accra asks to suspend students' exams
Accra (Agenzia Fides) - An appeal to suspend the students' final exams was launched by His Exc. Mgr. John Bonaventure Kwofie, Archbishop of Accra, at the head of the educational sector of the local Bishops' Conference. T ...
15 July 2020
AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The drama of children left without school, between violence and poverty
Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "In the regions of Burkina Faso on the border with Mali and Niger there is no more school, several school buildings have been set on fire, and many teachers murdered. The devastation is the ...
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