News

• 19 February 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The pandemic has highlighted fragility, weaknesses and the need to support each other in faith and fraternity Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) - "Lent is the right place that invites us to share, to the charity that comes from the heart and not from appearances. This time of pandemic has highlighted fragility, weakness and the need to su ...
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  19 February 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Not only anti Covid-19 prevention: polio vaccination campaigns launched for over 29,000 children Juba (Agenzia Fides) - A few days ago, the South Sudanese Ministry of Health confirmed the increase in corona infections (see Fides 17/2/2021) in various states of the country. But the country's health sector is also fac ...
• 19 February 2021
  AFRICA/BURKINA FASO - The Bishops: "We need to tackle the issue of internally displaced people to avoid new tensions" Ouagadougou (Agenzia Fides) - "The security situation remains worrying in various areas, despite a relative calm" the Bishops of Burkina Faso and Niger affirm in the final communiqué of their second Plenary Assembly for ...
• 19 February 2021
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Appointment of metropolitan archbishop of Chattogram Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Lawrence Subrato Howlader, C.S.C., of Barishal, as metropolitan archbishop of Chattogram, Bangladesh. (SL) (Agenzia Fides, 19/2/2021) ...
• 18 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - 29 years ago: commemoration of the March of Hope Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "We did not understand that the blood of so many victims which impregnates the Congolese soil is a seed that will one day bear fruit for a better Congo", said Mgr. Vincent Tshomba, one of the a ...
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  18 February 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Violence and protests: seven countries declare a state of emergency El Geneina (Agenzia Fides) - Seven Sudanese states have declared a state of emergency. They are Sennar, South Darfur, West Darfur, North Darfur and East Darfur, as well as the states of North Kordofan and West Kordofan, ...
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  18 February 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - The Church consecrates the nation to St. Joseph Manila (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Philippines are preparing to consecrate the country to the protection of Saint Joseph as part of a solemn celebration called to be held on May 1st, the day in memory of Saint J ...
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  18 February 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Outrage over the irregular vaccinations of senior officials while many on the front lines continue to die Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The chairman of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference (CEP) condemned the recent irregularities in vaccination. "The outrage caused by these incidents is increasing because it ignores those who have mad ...
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  18 February 2021
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Medicine to save lives: guaranteeing everyone the right to health and access to medicines Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - For more than forty years, through the Sharing Campaign called Compartir, the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela and Caritas of Venezuela have invited the country to help the poorest and most vuln ...
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  18 February 2021
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Patriarch Tawadros's "family catechesis": let's free sons and daughters from false needs Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt too, the Covid-19 pandemic makes it impossible to participate in person in important gatherings and pushes many families to spend more time together at their homes. This de facto situatio ...
• 17 February 2021
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - Covid-19 pandemic: Burundian migrants blocked in South Kivu after border closure Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - "Due to the restriction in the fight against Covid-19, the borders are currently closed in the village of Katogota. Therefore, it is impossible for Burundian immigrants who live in our village ...
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  17 February 2021
  AMERICA/PERU - Social and health crisis: hundreds of migrants from Brazil stranded at the border Puerto Maldonado (Agenzia Fides) - The Apostolic Vicar of Puerto Maldonado has addressed an appeal to the government authorities about the development on the border with Brazil: After the arrival of more than 300 migrant ...
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  17 February 2021
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Ban on gatherings after the rise in new infections: "We also clarify the hygiene rules at church services" Bor (Agenzia Fides) - The ongoing public gatherings, including Sunday services, required the intervention of the police in Bor, the capital of Jonglei state in eastern South Sudan. Due to non-compliance with preventive m ...
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  17 February 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Chaldean Patriarch Sako: it is wrong to expect that the Pope's visit will solve all our problems Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) - Pope Francis "is not coming to Iraq to solve all the problems" that the local Christian communities are facing. It certainly does not depend on him to bring back "Christians who emigrated abroa ...
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  17 February 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - A Lent of conversion, purification and hope Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - In its Lenten message, the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Conference of Chile underlines the imposition of the ashes with which this liturgical season begins, inviting people to participat ...