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India, Panama, Honduras Receive Aid from PMS Fund for Covid Emergency

In this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Church in India has reached and provided assistance to several million people, especially the poorest and those in vulnerable conditions. Indian Christians have responded with generosity and commitment to the emergency, despite their number – 2.5 percent out of a population of 1,298,041,000 inhabitants, reported Fides News Agency.

As elsewhere in the world, the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the virus has resulted in the loss of jobs and minimal livelihoods for a large number of workers, immigrants, and the poor, who have suffered the most. Thousands of immigrants found themselves stranded unexpectedly in different areas of the country where they found themselves without food or shelter. Parishes and religious communities have mobilized to collect donations and funds to be distributed, through daily meals and essential goods, to thousands of people, entire families, the elderly, the poor, the sick, tribal populations, immigrants, street children, the homeless, and vulnerable people.

The long period of the pandemic has meant an extraordinary action for the local Churches in India and dealing with an unpredictable situation. The generosity and commitment of the Catholic communities were manifested towards all, without discrimination, but also led to the depletion of the meager economic resources at their disposal for the development of their ordinary activities of evangelization, assistance, and human promotion. Through the Emergency Fund established by Pope Francis at the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in order to respond to the needs caused by the Covid-19 emergency within the Churches of the mission territories, it was possible to help Dioceses and Parishes which have particular needs.

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