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  14 July 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - The Ministers of the Sick celebrate their founder: "The pandemic we are going through is not a divine scourge" Rome (Agenzia Fides) - "In a situation that makes us aware that we are all potentially sick, for us, animated by the charisma of Camillo de Lellis, the announcement of Christian hope becomes even more urgent and perhaps ...
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  14 July 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - A group of Bishops has asked President Moreno for the resignation of the Minister of Health Quito (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishops of 10 cities in Ecuador have sent a public letter to President Lenín Moreno asking for the resignation of the Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos. The Prelates ask President Leni ...
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  14 July 2020
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Towards the Youth Missionary Congress and Missionary month of October, despite the crisis Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "We live immersed in general chaos present at all levels of social and personal life: often non-existent basic public services, political actions separated from the common good and development, ...
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  14 July 2020
  AFRICA/SENEGAL - Covid-19; The Bishops of Senegal postpone the opening of the churches Dakar (Agenzia Fides) - "Despite our common thirst to find our way back to our churches, we, your Bishops, urge you to be patient in faith and in Hope", say the Bishops of Senegal in announcing the decision to keep churc ...
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  14 July 2020
  ASIA/MALAYSIA - The issue of migrants has a strong impact on freedom of press and expression Kuala Lumpur (Agenzia Fides) - The management of the relationship with migrants in Malaysia, characterized in recent months by deportations and arrests, has raised concerns on behalf of organizations defending human righ ...
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  14 July 2020
  AFRICA/KENYA - Covid-19: churches re-open for worship next Sunday Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) - Catholic Churches in Nairobi are set to reopen on July 19 in strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols from the Government.. "I urge you to take these guidelines seriously so that we may adequately ...
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  14 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Sisi starts development projects in the area of St. Catherine's Monastery Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - While Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reopens the former Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia for Islamic worship, in Egypt President Abdel Fattah al Sisi launches development projects aimed ...
• 14 July 2020
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Appointment of the Rector of the St. Paul Inter-diocesan Major Seminary of Juba Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 12 May 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Fr. Baptist Karim Bazawi Michel Moura, of the diocesan clergy of Tomb ...
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  14 July 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Churches re-open and pastoral activities begin again; St. Nino parish burns in church fire Manila (Agenzia Fides) - "We have resumed celebrating masses, with due caution and respecting the measures indicated by the government. We have seen some people cry and were moved in taking part in the Eucharist, after ...
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  13 July 2020
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Nuncio: "In order to achieve reconciliation, one must have the intention and I believe that a large part of Colombia wants it" Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - "To achieve reconciliation, one must have the intention and I believe that a large part of Colombia wants it, especially in the regions most affected by the war. But it cannot be achieved overnig ...
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  13 July 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Appeal to political and religious leaders: seize the opportunity for peace Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - "In view of important national elections and the 21st century Panglong Conference, we appeal directly to all Myanmar leaders and religious leaders to listen to each other and decide to seek the g ...
• 13 July 2020
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Appointment of the Auxiliary Bishop of Colombo Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father has appointed as auxiliary of the metropolitan archdiocese of Colombo, Sri Lanka, the Reverend Anton Ranjith Pillainayagam, of the clergy of the same archdiocese, currently ...
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  13 July 2020
  ASIA/MIDDLE EAST - Churches and ecumenical bodies in the Middle East: the "reconversion" of Ayasofya is a sabotage of the new paths of brotherhood between Christians and Muslims Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) - The decision of the current Turkish leadership to reconvert the monumental complex of Ayasofia in Istanbul as a mosque represents "an attack on religious freedom", also protected by internation ...
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  13 July 2020
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Archbishop Moses Costa dies due to the consequences of Covid-19 Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - He contracted Covid-19 and had been hospitalized for a month. Weakened by the infection, Archbishop Moses M. Costa, CSC, 70 years old, Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Chattogram, die ...
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  13 July 2020
  OCEANIA/PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Covid-19, a Salesian: "No man is an island, let us reflect on the importance of life" Port Moresby (Agenzia Fides) - "From the lockdown imposed due to the Coronavirus pandemic in March, until the reopening of flights in the Philippines, we remained isolated together with the other Salesian brothers who, i ...