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  8 July 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Bishops: concern over the increase in violence against religious minorities Lahore (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite the current Covid-19 pandemic, which is posing its share of challenges in Pakistan, religious intolerance and discrimination in recent months have increased": is the complaint of the Nat ...
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  8 July 2020
  AFRICA/MALAWI - Carmelites in support of Covid-19 patients from the diocese of Zomba Zomba (Agenzia Fides) - The hospital of the Pirimiti community of the diocese of Zomba has received three oxygen concentrators to equip the isolation ward for Covid-19 patients which was specifically created to deal with ...
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  8 July 2020
  AMERICA - Covid 19: support to Nicaraguan bishops by Central American bishops San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Church of Central America has given strong support to Nicaraguan bishops who speak and act to protect the most vulnerable population facing the Covid-19 pandemic. In a message, the Pres ...
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  8 July 2020
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Crimes based on religious discrimination cannot go unpunished Peshawar (Agenzia Fides) - "All the residents on this street are Muslims and they do not want Christians to live here: this is what the attackers said to my husband and us; since we did not succumb to those pressures, th ...
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  8 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - "Martyrs of the faith and the nation": the first cinematographic work on the Copts killed in Libya by the jihadists begins Samalut (Agenzia Fides) - The first cinematographic work dedicated to the 20 Coptic Christians beheaded in 2015 by the jihadists together with their Ghanaian workmate will be entitled "Martyrs of the faith and the nation ...
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  8 July 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Since the Covid-19 emergency, new collaborations in the Church thanks to telework Almaty (Agnzia Fide) - "The state of emergency due to Covid-19 has provided an opportunity for the emergence of new relationships and forms of cooperation, both inside and outside the Church. As is happening all over the ...
• 8 July 2020
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 8 April 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Martial Ramiakadaoro, of the diocesan clergy of Antsirabé as Na ...
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  8 July 2020
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - UN report: more than 1,100 people killed by Ugandan rebels in just over a year in the east of the Country Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 397 cases of human rights violations attributable to ADF (Allied Democratic Forces) between 1 January 2019 and 31 January 2020, with the killing of at least 1,154 people, including 2 ...
• 8 July 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Appointment of the Apostolic Vicar of Yurimaguas Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father Francis has appointed Fr. Jesús María Aristín Seco, C.P., currently Apostolic Administrator of the same Vicariate, as Apostolic Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Yurima ...
• 8 July 2020
  AFRICA/LIBERIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 29 April 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Don Dennis CJ Nimene, of the diocesan clergy of Cape Palmas, as Nat ...
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  7 July 2020
  AMERICA/HAITI - Bishops on new decrees: "they threaten the foundations of our society, coexistence, culture, faith and Christian morality" Port au Prince (Agenzia Fides) - In a note signed by the members of the Episcopal Conference of Haiti, the Bishops denounce the publication of the latest decrees of President Jovenel Moïse, which clearly attack the cult ...
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  7 July 2020
  EUROPE/BELGIUM - Bishops' letter: in the time of pandemic, Christians have "a hope to offer to the world" Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - "We are sent by Christ, by our baptism. In the face of this pandemic, this world, capable of great generosity, is also caught up in doubt. Let us offer the world our solidarity, our hope and th ...
• 7 July 2020
  EUROPE/FRANCE - Appointment of the national Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies ad interim Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 31, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed His Exc. Mgr. Georges Colomb, MEP, Bishop of La Rochelle as Nation ...
• 7 July 2020
  AFRICA/INDIAN OCEAN - Appointment of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies, Fr. Michel Moura Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On March 18, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr Michel Moura, of the diocesan clergy of Port Louis as National ...
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  7 July 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Heads of the Churches of Jerusalem: "radical groups" threaten the Christian presence in the Holy City Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - Jewish "radical groups" committed to acquiring ecclesiastical properties in the so-called Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem aim to sabotage the plural identity of the Holy City, o ...