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  8 August 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A missionary from the province of Guayas: "There is no certainty" Duràn (Agenzia Fides) - "Since May 28, our city has a yellow light, meaning commercial activities have reopened but with capacity reduced to 30% in order not to create crowds. Churches have also opened", writes Fr. Save ...
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  8 August 2020
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - Rector of Santiago de María of Zacatecoluca Major Seminary murdered Zacatecoluca (Agenzia Fides) - Father Ricardo Antonio Cortéz was shot dead yesterday August 7, 2020. According to reports from the diocese of Zacatecoluca sent to Agenzia Fides, the vehicle with the corpse of the religi ...
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  7 August 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - The health crisis jeopardizes the future of the most precarious populations Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - The crisis in the health sector in Papua New Guinea in recent months is worsening. Nurses and doctors from Catholic Health Services and Healthcare Facilities have reduced or stopped work co ...
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  7 August 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "Creating spaces for dialogue, conflict is not Bolivian culture", Mgr. Centellas celebrates Te Deum for 195 years of independent life Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - The President of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, Mgr.Ricardo Centellas, presided over the Eucharist of thanksgiving during the 195 years of Bolivia's independent life, this Thursday 6 August, i ...
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  6 August 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Caritas Lebanon: "We are living a nightmare, but we will not give up and will continue to help the most vulnerable" Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - More than 300,000 people have been displaced from their homes, thousands have been wounded and hundreds have died: this is the provisional toll caused by the explosion that took place on Tuesday, ...
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  6 August 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Letter from 152 bishops to criticize the management of the government Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - A group of 152 bishops from Brazil, about a third of the total members of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, has published a "Letter to the People of God", in which serious criticisms are made ...
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  6 August 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - The bishops on the political crisis in the Country: "This is the worst time to cause a new crisis" Lima (Agenzia Fides) - From large private companies to trade unions and the Catholic Church, everyone has asked the Executive and the Congress of Peru to immediately overcome the serious political crisis that the Country ...
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  5 August 2020
  AMERICA/PERU - Peruvian solidarity: 100 dining rooms for 10,000 people Lima (Agenzia Fides) - The Church has transferred the funds raised during the campaign "For a Peru without hunger", a great crusade of national solidarity, to the 100 dining rooms to assist the most needy people sufferin ...
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  5 August 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - "The Amazon needs you", real help to the Amazonian peoples Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - Almost three months after its launch, the "The Amazon needs you" campaign (See Fides, 19/05/2020) has collected over 700 thousand reais and this week provides a bulletin for the actions carried ...
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  5 August 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Covid 19: health projects to raise awareness, train and prepare health workers Yopougon-Kouté (Agenzia Fides) - The St. Laurent parish of Yopougon Kouté celebrates today 5 August the ceremony for the delivery of protective face masks, hydroalcoholic gel, sterilizers and ventilators, infrared ther ...
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  5 August 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai: "mysterious explosion" in Beirut. We ask everyone for help Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - "Beirut, the bride of the East, Beirut, the lighthouse of the West, is wounded". It is a "devastated city", reduced to "a scenario of war without war". Thus begins the appeal launched by Maronite ...
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  4 August 2020
  AMERICA/PANAMA - Mgr. Ulloa on the pandemic: "sensitivity, unity, solidarity and generosity must prevail" Panama City (Agenzia Fides) - "We are living in a moment in which the great sense of sensitivity, unity, solidarity and generosity that will allow us to overcome the challenges as a country must prevail", are the words o ...
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  4 August 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Covid-19: Caution urged in Sudan before Eid El Adha holiday Karthoum (Agenzia Fides) - No new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in 14 out of 18 states in Sudan in the past two weeks, however, precautionary measures against the spread of coronavirus will be maintained across th ...
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  1 August 2020
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Missionary Childhood Day: growing in holiness through daily experiences Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday 2 August the Day of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence, JONIAM2020, is celebrated in Paraguay, on the theme "May it be done to me according to your Word" ("Hágase en mi según tu ...
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  1 August 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Towards the peace conference: ceasefire and federalism on the agenda Naypyidaw (Agenzia Fides) - Myanmar is preparing for the two most important events of the year which, despite the restrictions for Covid-19, will be held with the times and methods already decided, albeit with some limit ...