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  12 March 2021
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - Judicial decision on the use of the name of Allah in Christian publications, "a victory of common sense" Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - "The High Court's decision to allow the word Allah to be used by Christians across Malaysia is a victory of common sense and should not be seen as the victory of one group or community over ...
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  12 March 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Rite of reparation in the Cathedral of Ibagué after the desecration of March 8 Ibagué (Agenzia Fides) - Today, March 12, at 11.30 am local time, a rite of reparation celebrated by the Archbishop, His Exc. Bishop Orlando Roa Barbosa, after the desecration that took place in recent days. On the occa ...
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  12 March 2021
  ASIA/LEBANON - Support of the Greek Melchite Episcopate for "Lebanese neutrality" Raboué (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of the Greek-Melkite Catholic Church have also launched an appeal aimed at keeping Lebanon away from regional conflicts, agreeing with the many appeals expressed in this regard by th ...
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  11 March 2021
  AFRICA/MOROCCO - Testimony of three nuns of the Missionary Company of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and their friendship with the Muslims of Taza Taza (Agenzia Fides) - Taza is a Muslim town of 150,000 inhabitants where, currently, the only Catholic community present is made up of three nuns of the Missionary Company of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. "It is not possib ...
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  11 March 2021
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - The situation remains very difficult, the Church constantly invokes peace and dialogue to solve problems Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) - "The Church cannot take a position in favor or against the accusation of impeachment of the President of the Republic. The position of the Church is to constantly invoke peace": these are the w ...
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  11 March 2021
  AMERICA/MEXICO - The mission of the politician: a vocation at the service of national reconciliation and the construction of the common good Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Political vocation cannot be reduced to belonging to a party or to supporting an ideological postulate from a platform. Politics, on the other hand, implies a "vocation to service". This ser ...
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  11 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "The military say 'peace' but brutality and violence increase" Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "The military wants to show the people and the whole world that they are making peace and that they intend to relaunch dialogue with ethnic groups. This is why they have removed the label of a 't ...
• 11 March 2021
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - Humanitarian crisis in Nampula worsens Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - Covid-19, cholera and lack of food are the plagues that afflict the Mozambican province of Nampula, where on March 6 during his pastoral visit, His Exc. Mgr. Inacio Saure, Archbishop of Nampula, ...
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  11 March 2021
  ASIA/JAPAN - On the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima catastrophe: Catholic bishops are calling for the nuclear power plants to be closed Tokyo (Agenzia Fides) - "In 2011, after the earthquake and the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, we Bishops as believers who protect life as a gift from God, demanded the immediate abolition of nuclear power ...
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  10 March 2021
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan, first country in Middle East and Africa to receive first doses of covid-19 vaccine Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Sudan has started to vaccinate health workers on the front lines in the fight against the corona virus after receiving the first batch of 828,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, intended for ...
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  10 March 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Closure of the Twitter account improperly opened in the name of the Archbishop of Yangon Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Archbishop of Yangon, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, asked the social network "Twitter" to delete an account with his name that was wrongly attributed to him. This is confirmed by the secretariat ...
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  10 March 2021
  VATICAN - Pope Francis' gratitude for his trip to Iraq: "Muslims invite Christians to return, and rebuild churches and mosques together" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The Muslim residents of Mosul invite their Christian fellow citizens to return "to rebuild churches and mosques together". This is the image that Pope Francis sees as the seed of the rebirth of thi ...
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  10 March 2021
  AMERICA/HAITI - Religious write a letter to President Moïse. "You have a duty to respond to the requests of the population" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - "As men and women religious trying to provide assistance in all areas of the life of the Haitian people and in the most remote and difficult places in the country ... we witness the miser ...
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  10 March 2021
  EUROPE/ITALY - Human trafficking: "The pandemic must not lead us to turn a blind eye to other problems" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "The Covid pandemic must not lead us to turn a blind eye to an unprecedented economic and social crisis and to human trafficking, which continues to affect the poorest countries in the world in par ...
• 10 March 2021
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Riots during demonstrations: bishops call for dialogue Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "While we still have time, we must do our best to limit the damage and possibly stop it. Let's stop the cycle of violence!", calls Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye of Dakar in a statement on behalf of t ...