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  26 June 2020
  AMERICA/PERU- Families and homeless people of Cuzco receive help from the Church, while the cold weather aggravates the situation due to the pandemic Cusco (Agenzia Fides) - The parish of Santiago Apóstol in the district of Lamay, Cusco, has brought over 100 parcels to the most vulnerable families in the province of Calca, as part of the donations made through the ca ...
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  26 June 2020
  AMERICA/URUGUAY - The Bishops: "Our society must support laws that prevent and discourage any type of euthanasia and assisted suicide" Montevideo (Agenzia Fides) - "We need a Uruguay that welcomes, protects, promotes and accompanies each person during their existence, including the final stage of their earthly life, through the fundamental help of famil ...
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  26 June 2020
  ASIA/ISRAEL - The Court of Jerusalem rejects the appeal of the Orthodox Patriarchate on the sale of the properties to Ateret Cohanim Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - An Israeli court in Jerusalem has rejected a request by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate to cancel the sale of three properties in the Old City to the settler organisation Ateret Cohanim. The I ...
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  26 June 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - Beyond any form of discrimination: the Catholic community of Ranchi engaged with aid to Muslims and tribal families Ranchi (Agenzia Fides) - Bringing humanitarian aid, solidarity and consolation to humanity, without any discrimination of ethnicity, religion, culture, social class: it is with this spirit that the Archdiocese of Ranchi, ...
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  26 June 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - "We must fight sexual violence as we are fighting COVID-19" say the Bishops Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) - The Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Commission said it "strongly and unreservedly condemns the recent surge of gender based violence and femicide that ...
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  26 June 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Bishops: "Let families take care of the emotional education of children" Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - "Parents have the God-given privilege and obligation to bring forth life and to nurture every life they bring forth, especially in matters of virtues, values, and character-building, including a ...
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  25 June 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "House arrest and quarantine elsewhere": Archbishop Juarez's request for detainees in the face of Covid-19 Sucre (Agenzia Fides) - "I want to express my deep concern about the events that are happening due to the coronavirus and how the number of people affected, suspected and infected is growing, especially in the San Roque ...
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  25 June 2020
  ASIA/JORDAN - The American University of Madaba donates 25 thousand euros to the fund set up by the Jordanian government for the Covid-19 emergency Madaba (Agenzia Fides) - The American University of Madaba , AUM has donated 20,000 Jordanian Dinars (equal to about 25,000 euros) to the fund set up by the Government of Jordan to deal with the emergency of the coronavi ...
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  25 June 2020
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Pancasila must not become ordinary state law: the reservations of civil society Yoyakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "I think that any effort to strengthen Pancasila and to promote the ideology of the State must be supported. But, in light of the current public reactions from parts of society, I fear that an ...
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  25 June 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Covid-19: Filipino churches support and assist 4,5 million families Manila (Agenzia Fides) - Christian Churches in the Philippines, and among them the Catholic Church, have supported and helped 4.5 million families with basic necessities and other forms of support, since March 15, when a ...
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  25 June 2020
  VATICAN - Aid to the dioceses of Bangladesh thanks to the PMS Covid-19 Emergency Fund Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the diocese of Barishal in Bangladesh, which includes 11 civil districts, has worked to help the population to stop the infection, both through ...
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  25 June 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Covid-19, lockdown extended in Khartoum: the government meets the needs of street sellers Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - The Sudan Security and Defense Council has further extended a lockdown in the state of Khartoum to June 29, in response to the recommendations of its Supreme Committee for Health Emergencies. T ...
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  25 June 2020
  AFRICA/LESOTHO - The Church in Lesotho, despite the conditions imposed by Covid-19, its evangelizing mission continues Maseru (Agenzia Fides) - "To date Lesotho has seen just seventeen confirmed cases of COVID-19 making it the lowest country in the Southern African Region. So far, only 2130 persons have been tested in a national populati ...
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  25 June 2020
  AFRICA - The appeal to ceasefire for the Covid-19 crisis has not been received in Africa Rome (Agenzia Fides) - The clarion call for a ceasefire amid COVID-19 crisis in areas of armed conflicts by world leaders including the Holy Father and the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, have been di ...
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  24 June 2020
  AMERICA/CHILE - Archbishop Vargas: "A policy of indecision generates a debt with many wounds and painful consequences, not only for the indigenous world" Temuco (Agenzia Fides) - Mgr. Héctor Vargas Bastidas, Bishop of Temuco and President of the Indigenous Pastoral Care of the Chilean Episcopal Conference (CECh), in an interview published in the Diario Austral of the cit ...