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  10 July 2020
  ASIA/SINGAPORE - General elections, among Covid-19 and the migrant crisis Singapore (Agenzia Fides) - The ballot boxes to elect parliamentarians of the 14th legislature since the "Lion City" has been an independent state (1965) begins today, July 10, in Singapore. With a unicameral parliamenta ...
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  10 July 2020
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - The alarm of the missionaries: New jihadist attack in the North destroys church, hospital, houses Maputo (Agenzia Fides) - New attack by jihadist formations in Mocímboa da Praia, in northern Mozambique. The militiamen set the local church, the Januario Pedro secondary school, the district hospital, dozens of houses, ...
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  10 July 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - The Indigenous Missionary Council denounces the presidential vetoes: hatred and violence against indigenous peoples Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) has publicly expressed its repudiation of the presidential vetoes expressed in the bill 1142/2020, approved by the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal S ...
• 10 July 2020
  ASIA/TAIWAN - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 25, 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Venanzio Khohi Mbwi, of the diocesan clergy of Taichung as Nat ...
• 10 July 2020
  AFRICA/SENEGAL and MAURITANIA - Confirmation of the National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On 22 April 2020 Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, confirmed Fr. Joachim Francois Ndione, of the diocesan clergy of Thiès as Na ...
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  10 July 2020
  AMERICA/CUBA - The journey of Missionary Childhood and Adolescence continues also during the pandemic Havana (Agenzia Fides) - "In Cuba, the implementation of the first post-Covid-19 phase has begun gradually. For the Church it was a challenge and at the same time a call to respond and announce the values of the Gospel", ...
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  10 July 2020
  ASIA/LEBANON - Patriarch Rai's appeal for "Lebanese neutrality" moves national and regional political axes Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The recent appeal of Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai to internationally support Lebanon's position of neutrality on Middle Eastern geopolitical scenarios is beginning to arouse eloquent re ...
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  10 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Ivorians have become psychotic one month after the attack on Kafolo Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - On 11 June, 14 Ivorian soldiers died in a terrorist attack against a joint army/gendarmerie checkpoint in the Kafolo area, on the border with Burkina Faso. This was the second jihadist offensive ...
• 9 July 2020
  ASIA/MYANMAR - Drought, floods, poverty and war: the real plagues of the nation Bagan (Agenzia Fides) - In the small town of Nyaung U, in the central plains of Myanmar, the distribution of food is an occasional fact. A truck loaded with giant cabbage stops in the neighborhood and distributes a cabba ...
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  9 July 2020
  ASIA/PHILIPPINES - Churches reopen after lockdown; the Church activates a psychological and spiritual counseling program Manila (Agenzia Fides) - It is a new "starting signal" for the whole Catholic community and will be welcomed with joy and renewed spiritual enthusiasm: the leaders of the Catholic Church in the Philippines have welcomed ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/SUDAN - Sudan's population exceeds 43 million, almost one in four needs help Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - "Food insecurity remains alarmingly high in Sudan with increased and protracted displacement, economic decline and inflation, and high food price hikes, exacerbated by the impacts of the COVID- ...
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  9 July 2020
  AMERICA/ARGENTINA - Social Week 2020: "In a creative way, we must ask ourselves: how can we get out of all this?" Buenos Aires (Agenzia Fides) - "Looking to the future with creativity": the second day of the 2020 Social Week took place in Argentina on this theme, which is held virtually because of the pandemic. On Tuesday, July 7 Dr ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/EGYPT - In al Moqattam church and mosque built on the same ground, in the sign of national unity Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - The inauguration date has not yet been announced, but the imposing shapes of the church and the mosque built next to each other, on the same two-acre plot, in the urban district of al Moqattam, no ...
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  9 July 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - With the death of Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, "the Country loses a model for young people" says President Alassane Ouattara Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ivory Coast's Prime Minister, died on Wednesday 8 July in Abidjan. The information was broadcast live on national television, RTI 1, by Patrick Achi, Secretary General of ...
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  9 July 2020
  VATICAN - Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ecuador and Bolivia receive aid from the PMS Fund for the Covid-19 emergency Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In many dioceses of mission territories, the serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, of a health, social and economic nature, have added to already dramatic situations, as in the cas ...