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  6 May 2021
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Bishops: "our beloved country demands a change of course, not with violence, but with dialogue and fraternity" San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - After the dismissal of the Magistrates of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and the Attorney General of the Republic, which occurred on May 1st, the Bishops' Confer ...
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  6 May 2021
  ASIA/EAST TIMOR - The Church collaborates with the government in the reconstruction of homes for the victims of the floods Dili (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church of East Timor is collaborating with the government to repair and rebuild the houses damaged by the floods last month, caused by cyclone Seroja, which caused the death of at leas ...
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  6 May 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - Erdogan hosts religious leaders at iftar dinner Ankara (Agenzia Fides) – On Wednesday, 5 May, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted and offered an official Iftar dinner (fast-breaking) during the month of Ramadan, in the mega presidential palace in Ankara t ...
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  6 May 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - A young missionary collaborator dies in the car explosion in the Niem Mission Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A young missionary collaborator is the only victim of the explosion of a mine that exploded under the car of the Catholic Mission of Niem. "Fr. Arialdo Urbani and one of his members of the Missio ...
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  6 May 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Escalation of violence in the province of Papua: Church calls for moderation Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - Tension increases in the Indonesian province of Papua (called Irian Jaya), in eastern Indonesia, plagued by separatist turmoil but also the scene of a general protest by civil society for the ab ...
• 6 May 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - Appointment of the interim National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Mgr. Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On February 27, 2021 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed His Exc Mgr. Jorge Patricio Vega Velasco, SVD, Bishop Prelate o ...
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  5 May 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - A Humanitarian Commission to follow the people, the proposal of the Archbishop of Cali Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Archbishop Darío de Jesús Monsalve Mejía of Cali, in view of the recent clashes with the police, in which 19 people died and hundreds were injured, suggests the creation of a "Humanitarian Com ...
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  5 May 2021
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Good and concrete missionaries of the Gospel: the Camillians in aid of the population hit by typhoon Seroja Maumere (Agenzia Fides) - "After the difficult moments of the tropical cyclone Seroja which hit several islands near ours in Flores (see Agenzia Fides 9/4/2021), aid is now being organized for those populations by many o ...
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  5 May 2021
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - The legacy of the last Dominican missionary in Pakistan, "Good Samaritan" Faisalabad (Agenzia Fides) - Father Aldino Amato OP, in almost 60 years of his pastoral service in Pakistan, carried out in various cities such as Khushpur, Sahiwal, Warispura Faisalabad, Chichawatni, Okara City and othe ...
• 5 May 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The population continues to flee from Pemba, the town attacked by jihadists at the end of March Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - The exodus of inhabitants from Pemba continues, the small town in northern Mozambique attacked on March 24 by a jihadist group that claims to be affiliated with ISIS (see Fides, 27/3/2021). Accor ...
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  5 May 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - The Bishops on kidnappings: "The fight against this phenomenon must continue" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "The fight against the phenomenon of kidnappings and against evil must continue", said the Episcopal Conference of Haiti in a text sent to Agenzia Fides and published last night where the ...
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  5 May 2021
  VATICAN - The "true jewels" at the College of St. Peter, where "one evangelizes by forming" Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Formation for a priest today, is integral. We are interested not only in intellectual formation, but also in human formation, spiritual formation and missionary and pastoral formation". Th ...
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  5 May 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Initiatives to relaunch pilgrimages to Ur of the Chaldeans, after the visit of Pope Francis Ur (Agenzia Fides) - The arrival of a dozen representatives of different Christian Churches from around the world is expected in the coming days in Ur of the Chaldeans, the Iraqi city from where, according to tradition, ...
• 5 May 2021
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - Missionaries' car blows up on a mine; at least one victim Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A car of the Catholic Mission of Niem exploded on a mine this morning, May 5, 2021. "We are waiting to know the exact details of the sad episode", His Exc. Mgr Mirosław Gucwa, Bishop of the dioc ...
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  4 May 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Kidnappers in Haiti release hostages Port-au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Kidnappers have released five priests, two nuns and two other people who had been held for nearly three weeks. The kidnapping took place on Sunday 11 April, and all the hostages are safe ...