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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Various Church figures also affected by Covid-19 Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - The spread of Covid-19 in Zambia does not stop, where three parishes of the Archdiocese of Kasama were closed for two weeks after priests and their lay collaborators tested positive for the virus ...
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  27 January 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Dam tragedy in Brumadinho two years ago: digital pilgrimage commemorates victims and calls for integral ecology Brumadinho (Agenzia Fides) - On the second anniversary of the Brumadinho tragedy, in Córrego do Feijão (see Fides, 7/2/2019) which caused hundreds of victims, from 18 to 25 January the Episcopal Region Nossa Senhora do ...
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  27 January 2021
  AFRICA/DJIBOUTI - The pandemic increases the vulnerability of street children: the Church offers hospitality Djibouti (Agenzia Fides) - The shelter for street children in Djibouti, organized by the country's Caritas to reduce the the threat of minors living on the streets in connection with pandemics and offers protection to 80 ...
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  27 January 2021
  AMERICA/CHILE - The Archbishop of Concepción blesses the inhabitants of the region afflicted by the health, economic, political and social crisis from an airplane Concepcion (Agenzia Fides) - Faced with the serious health, economic, political and social crisis in which Chile finds itself, Monsignor Fernando Chomali, Archbishop of Concepcion, on Sunday 24 January, for about 20 minu ...
• 27 January 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore (India), presented by His Exc. Mgr. Antony Anandaray ...
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  27 January 2021
  ASIA/INDIA - Denunciation of civil society: "Violations of human rights and religious freedom in the democratic life of the nation" Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - It is urgent to support the fundamental rights contained in the Indian Constitution in a critical phase for the democratic life of the nation, in which human rights and freedoms of expression of c ...
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  27 January 2021
  ASIA/TURKEY - Ancient Armenian church of Kütahya razed to the ground Kütahya (Agenzia Fides) - The ancient Armenian church of Surp Toros (Saint Torus) Kütahya, dating back to before the seventeenth century and long deconsecrated, was razed to the ground after being taken over by private ...
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  26 January 2021
  ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - An integrated health care system for the poor and homeless at the initiative of the Church of Seoul Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - It is "a little leaven that transforms the Church and the world, making it a place of love". This is how Father Francis Jeong-hwan Kim, director of the "One Body One Spirit movement" presents to A ...
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  26 January 2021
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Buenaventura: "there is no violence here, but a real war" Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - In Colombia, unfortunately, a climate of violence still reigns (see Fides 19/1/2021), and in particular that by gangs and other armed groups continues to increase. After the request made ...
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  26 January 2021
  ASIA/MYANMAR - "Religions for Peace of Myanmar" calls for conditions for peace Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - In a seven-point appeal published on January 25th, members of the interreligious platform "Religions for Peace of Myanmar" demand the creation of the conditions for peace in Myanmar. All ethnic d ...
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  26 January 2021
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Prison pastoral care: reports of violence doubled, in addition to the spread of Covid-19 Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - In 2020 the cases of torture inside the Brazilian prison system almost doubled compared to 2019 according to the recent report published by the National Prison Ministry, which analyzes the case ...
• 26 January 2021
  AFRICA/CONGO - Appointment of the Rector of the "Msgr. Georges-Firmin Singha" Philosophical Seminary in the archdiocese of Brazzaville Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 3 September 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Rector of the "Msgr. Georges-Firmin Singha" interdiocesan Philos ...
• 26 January 2021
  AFRICA/BENIN - Bishops' Conference wishes "Dialogue for free and transparent elections" Porto-Novo (Agenzia Fides) - "The Bishops' Conference of Benin urges all political parties and institutions involved in the election for an open dialogue for a peaceful, genuinely inclusive, democratic and transparent pr ...
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  26 January 2021
  ASIA/IRAQ - Capital executions of jihadists after the Baghdad attack claimed by Daesh Nassiriya (Agenzia Fides) - The attack, in which more than 30 people died and around ninety were injured in Baghdad last Thursday, and to which the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility, sparked outrage among the Ira ...
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  25 January 2021
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Catholic priest killed in Mindanao Malaybalay (Agenzia Fides) - Unidentified armed men opened fire and killed yesterday, January 24, a Filipino Catholic priest, Fr. Rene Bayang Regalado, as he was preparing to return to the Seminary in the village of Patp ...