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  10 May 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Death sentence carried out against the murderer of Bishop Epiphanios Damanhur (Agenzia Fides) - In Damanhur Prison, the death penalty was carried out against Wael Saad Tawadros, the former Coptic Orthodox monk convicted of murdering Bishop Epiphanios. He was found dead on 29 July 2018 in ...
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  8 May 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Music to shorten distances: the World Youth Orchestra for children Beirut (Agenzia Fides) – To promote the universal language of music to fill the educational and social void caused by the health and economic crisis, to help reduce the distance between people. With this objective in m ...
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  8 May 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - Una parrocchia diventa centro di accoglienza per gli sfollati interni AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - A parish becomes a reception center for internally displaced persons Bourzanga (Agenzia Fides) - "The situation of the internally displaced persons in the parish of Bourzanga is of absolute emergen ...
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  8 May 2021
  ASIA/UZBEKISTAN - An oratory, a place of knowledge and proclamation of the Gospel Samarkand (Agenzia Fides) - The oratory as a place of encounter, knowledge, play, human relationships, positive socialization, joy and proclamation of the Gospel. With this spirit, the priests of the Institute of the Inc ...
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  8 May 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - "I am recovering, in a few days I'll be back on track!" says Fr. Arialdo Urbani, the missionary wounded by a mine Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - "I am recovering, I think that in a few days I will be ready to go back to work", says Fr. Arialdo Urbani, the Betharramite missionary (as the members of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of J ...
• 8 May 2021
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - The Bishops: "A national conference immediately to address the ungovernability of the Country" Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - "We must be united in the fight for our common destiny as a people. It must be clearly stated to the Federal Government that if they continue to ignore the constructive criticisms and recommendati ...
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  7 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Day of prayer "for the reconciliation of the Colombian people, justice and fraternal solidarity" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - The Colombian Church has convened a day of prayer for today, Friday May 7, in order to "ask for the reconciliation of the Colombian people, justice and fraternal solidarity". The Latin American C ...
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  7 May 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Christians observe a special National Day of fasting and prayer for the nation affected by the pandemic New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - While the Catholic Church in India loses another Bishop due to Covid-19, recording the death of 65-year-old Mgr. Basil Bhuriya Bishop of Jabhua, in Madhya Pradesh (after the death of Antony An ...
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  7 May 2021
  AMERICA/COSTA RICA - The Bishops on the "morning after pill": enough with policies contrary to the values of the nation San José (Agenzia Fides) - "In this period in which the health authorities and the whole country are waging a tough battle for life against the pandemic caused by Covid 19, the Costa Rican National Social Service surpri ...
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  7 May 2021
  ASIA/THAILAND - The impact of the third wave of Covid-19 on pastoral care; the missionaries close to the Burmese refugees Chiang Mai (Agenzia Fides) - "The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 here in Thailand is extremely slow, therefore it is difficult to predict when the situation will improve", writes to Agenzia Fides Fr. Ferdinando Pi ...
• 7 May 2021
  AFRICA/D.R. CONGO - The state of siege enters into force in two eastern provinces devastated by armed conflicts Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - As of yesterday, May 6, the state of siege in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has entered into force, proclaimed on May 3 by President F� ...
• 7 May 2021
  AMERICA/UNITED STATES - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Mgr. Kieran E. Harrington Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 3, 2021, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Mgr. Kieran E. Harrington, of the diocesan clergy of Brooklyn as N ...
• 7 May 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Mauricio Da Silva Jardim Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 3, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Mauricio Da Silva Jardim, of the clergy of Porto Alegre as Nati ...
• 7 May 2021
  AFRICA - Covid-19: "Africa's access to vaccines is one of the crucial points to contain the pandemic" recalls CUAMM Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - "Africa’s access to vaccines is one of the crucial points to contain the pandemic. In the face of a global emergency, the only possible response must be global. Africa cannot be excluded. We ne ...
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  7 May 2021
  ASIA/PALESTINE - Minister al Maliki: there is no Holy Land without Christians Rome (Agenzia Fides) - When you say that Palestine is the Holy Land, "you cannot talk about the Holy land without Christians", and Palestinian Authorites consider Palestinian Christians as an "integral, essential and sol ...