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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 ...
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  19 June 2021
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - May the experience of the pandemic give birth to a new way of caring for immigrants and refugees Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "More than a year has passed since the beginning of the global crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected all of humanity. More than a year has passed since the people most af ...
• 19 June 2021
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Resignation and appointment of bishop of Tainan and appointment of Apostolic Administrator Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Tainan, Taiwan, presented by Bishop John Lee Juo-Wang. At the same time the Pope appointed Bishop Bosc ...
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  18 June 2021
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Catastrophic humanitarian situation in Tigray: appeal to missionaries from the European coordinator for Eritrean Catholics Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Continue to gather information on what is happening in Tigray, inform public opinion with your means of communication. Urge the Holy See to put pressure on the international community thanks to ...
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  18 June 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - The Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Maldonado: "contributing to the development of the Amazonian culture according to the values of the Gospel" Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - In a long interview with the magazine "Selvas Amazonicas", of the Dominican Missionaries, sent to Agenzia Fides, Mgr. David Martinez de Aguirre, Bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Pue ...
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  18 June 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Construction of the first minor Seminary in the diocese of Hyderabad begins Hyderabad (Agenzia Fides) - "The minor Seminary is the backbone of a diocese. I think it is very important to have a minor Seminary in the diocese. In order to reach the goal of laying the first stone of the minor Semina ...
• 18 June 2021
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - The return of former President Gbagbo arouses the enthusiasm of his supporters; tensions with the police Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - The return of former President Laurent Gbagbo to Ivory Coast after ten years has aroused emotion among his supporters. For several days, in the headquarters of the FIP, the Front Populaire Ivoir ...
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  18 June 2021
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Day of the Missionary Ad gentes: "the light of the Gospel that we bring will be able to illuminate the dark night of the peoples" Puyo (Agenzia Fides) - "Today we want to congratulate and honor those Ecuadorian missionaries who, leaving their land and driven by the Spirit, left their home like Mary for her visit to her cousin Elizabeth, and brought ...
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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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...
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  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 ...