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  18 April 2020
  AMERICA/MEXICO - "Hungerless Families": Caritas campaign against Covid-19 continues Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Mexico continues and relaunches the "Hungerless Families" campaign launched on Easter Sunday. The campaign aims to collect food to feed families who, due to the crisis caused by Covi ...
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  18 April 2020
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - A Church fund to fight Covid-19; the solidarity of the Bishops of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe Lusaka (Agenzia Fides) - "We are close to the brothers and sisters who contracted and suffer because of the Coronavirus disease", say the Catholic Bishops of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the Easter message signed by Mg ...
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  18 April 2020
  AFRICA/NIGER - Appeal to global ceasefire: violence carried out by jihadist groups continues Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - "The ceasefire implored by Pope Francis here in Niger is almost completely unheard: jihadist terrorism continues to bloody this land and claim hundreds of victims. Even the situation at the borde ...
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  18 April 2020
  ASIA/HOLY LAND - Orthodox Easter, Covid-19 does not extinguish the "Sacred Fire" rite in the Holy Sepulcher Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The prohibition to hold religious celebrations and gatherings in recent weeks by the Israeli government to curb the spread of the epidemic is also affecting the Holy Week rites of the Eastern ...
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  17 April 2020
  EUROPE/ITALY - 19 months after the kidnapping of Fr. Pierluigi Maccalli the hope for his release remains alive Crema (Agenzia Fides) - "It was a great surprise and you can imagine my joy: after a silence of about 18 months, for the first time we had the certainty of what we have always believed and hoped," writes Fr. Walter Macca ...
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  17 April 2020
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Human rights do not disappear nor lost when crossing borders: hundreds of migrants stranded in Honduras Choluteca (Agenzia Fides) - "About 300 people originally from Haiti, Cuba and Africa (mostly Haitians) have already overcrowded the rooms they had rented in Choluteca, Honduras for more than 24 days", this is how the let ...
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  17 April 2020
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST - Fight against Covid-19, priests distribute face masks to the most exposed people Abidjan (Agenzia Fides) - "In this struggle that turns out to be varied, everyone makes their own contribution. And the least we can bring is first of all the prayer we say every day for the whole humanity that is suffer ...
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  17 April 2020
  VATICAN - The mission of the Church at the service of the most vulnerable and of the entire human family: a visible sign of the solidarity of the universal Church Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Caritas Internationalis is in the Commission for Covid-19 wanted by Pope Francis and, together with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development (DPIHD), will coordinate the first ...
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  17 April 2020
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - Religious close to the people of God in many ways during the pandemic, expression of a "Church that goes forth" Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - "Creativity in spiritual accompaniment by men and women religious, priests, deacons, pastoral workers, with many expressions, with different means, has penetrated very deeply into the communi ...
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  17 April 2020
  ASIA/INDIA - An interreligious team to offer psychological advice during the "lockdown" imposed for coronavirus Bhopal (Agenzia Fides) - An interreligious group in central India offers free advice to people affected by the coronavirus or who are in need due to the lockdown underway due to Covid-19. As Father Anand Muttungal report ...
• 17 April 2020
  ASIA/AFGHANISTAN - Political framework blocked due to Covid-19: further positive effects of the peace agreement Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - It took ten years to sign an agreement and, after the one signed between the United States, the Taliban and the Afghan government, hopes had grown. But now the Covid-19 emergency blocks the situat ...
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  17 April 2020
  AFRICA/TANZANIA - Coronavirus: the President of Tanzania proclaims three days of national prayer Dar es Salaam (Agenzia Fides) - The President of Tanzania John Pombe Magufuli has called for a three-day national prayer to ask for "the intercession of the Most High against the new coronavirus". "Tanzanian compatriots, ...
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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/ECUADOR - Covid-19: the voice of mission among collapsing healthcare facilities, corruption and war scenarios Durán (Agenzia Fides) - "The churches of Guayaquil have been closed since Saturday 14 March and the streets are deserted. Only the basic necessities are open in the morning". Fr. Saverio Turato, a fidei donum priest in ...
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  16 April 2020
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Solidarity among parishes in the face of Covid-19 Pesqueira (Agenzia Fides) - The Emergency Solidarity Action, initiative of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) and of Cáritas Brasileira launched on Easter Sunday (see Fides, 11/4/2020), has already prom ...
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  16 April 2020
  ASIA/KAZAKHSTAN - Caritas' commitment to respond to the Covid-19 emergency Almaty (Agenzia Fides) - "In Kazakhstan, the state of emergency for Covid-19 has been extended until May 1st. The situation does not seem very tragic in terms of number of infections but, on a subjective level, daily lif ...