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  27 May 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Vaccines are lacking, unemployment increases: the Apostolic Vicar of Chaco calls on the government and politicians "to do their job well" Chaco (Agenzia Fides) - "If in the first year of the pandemic we had fewer deaths and more unemployed, in this second year we have more deaths and more unemployed, because it is difficult for us to do our job well and th ...
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  27 May 2021
  ASIA/SYRIA - Aleppo, Archbishop Boutros Marayati appointed Patriarchal Administrator of the Armenian Catholic Church Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - Armenian Catholic Archbishop Boutros Marayati, at the head of the Armenian Catholic community of Aleppo, was appointed Interim Apostolic Administrator of the Armenian Catholic Church, after the d ...
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  27 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Urban warfare and another church hit in Kayah: resistance is being prepared Loikaw (Agenzia Fides) - Some rockets fired by the soldiers of the Burmese regular army hit the Catholic church of St. Joseph in the city of Demoso, in the Kayah state, in the eastern part of Myanmar, where intense fight ...
• 27 May 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - Burundian government and opposition armed groups are fighting each other on Congolese soil, denounces a local NGO Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - Burundian armed groups of opposite tendency are fighting in the plain of Ruzizi, in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was stated in a note sent to Agenzia ...
• 27 May 2021
  EUROPE/SLOVENIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Matjaz Kriznar Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On May 5, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Matjaz Kriznar, of the archdiocesan clergy of Ljubljana as Nation ...
• 27 May 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Escalation of violence by young rebels, despite appeals for peace Pibor (Agenzia Fides) - Approximately 1,736 homes have been attacked, of which about 700 have ended up reduced to ashes, nearly 44,962 head of cattle looted, 112 women and 84 children kidnapped, 128 men and 28 women kill ...
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  27 May 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The responsibility of Christians to build a truly democratic and participatory society Guadalajara (Agenzia Fides) - "In the current context, we are all invited to become aware of the responsibility of citizens to build a truly democratic and participatory society. Christians in particular have the mandate ...
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  27 May 2021
  VATICAN - A life for the mission: Fr. Miguel Angel San Roman Perez, O.P. Rome (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Miguel Angel San Roman Perez, O.P. died in Rome on May 7 after a long illness. He was a missionary in Taiwan and Hong Kong, where he exercised for forty years an intense pastoral and educationa ...
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  26 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Cardinal Bo appeals after church bombs: it is a humanitarian tragedy, stop the attacks Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "It is with immense pain that we express our concern over the attack on innocent civilians who took refuge in the Church of the Sacred Heart on the night of May 23", said Cardinal Charles Maung B ...
• 26 May 2021
  AFRICA/MALI - Coup within the coup: old practices that starve African peoples Bamako (Agenzia Fides) - What happened yesterday, May 25, 2021, has been described as a "coup within the coup" by the military against the leaders of the transitional executive as well as the colonels who carried out th ...
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  26 May 2021
  ASIA/PALESTINE - After the bombings, Patriarch Pizzaballa launches an aid appeal for the Christian community of Gaza Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – An aid appeal to meet the urgent needs "of our brothers and sisters in Christ especially in Gaza and in places severely affected" during the latest armed conflict which for eleven days again ...
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  26 May 2021
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Caritas Spain: despite alarmism, Europe appears to be compromised in a limited way in African emigration Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Africa Day celebrated yesterday gave Caritas Spain an opportunity, after the latest events related to African migrants in Ceuta and Melilla, to reflect on the migratory situation on this continen ...
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  26 May 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Ahead of the presidential election: Bishops comment on “difficult moments” Lima (Agenzia Fides) - According to Peruvian custom, the Peruvian Bishops' Conference has invited the two candidates in the run-off election for the presidency to a "fraternal meeting" on June 6th. The meeting with Keiko ...
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  26 May 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Interreligious prayer in the Italian Church for peace and brotherhood Milan (Agenzia Fides) – To put an end to the violence, tension and war in Myanmar, and pray so that the Burmese population can return to live in an atmosphere of peace and brotherhood: with this spirit, on Saturday May ...
• 26 May 2021
  AFRICA/KENYA - "A transparent process for the October 2022 vote immediately" ask the religious leaders of Kenya Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) continues to suffer from a serious case of leadership and credibility crisis", says the Dialogue Reference Group of the main religious ...