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Bangladesh s churches struggle to serve as Covid-19 rages
As the pandemic spreads and causes economic hardship, churches have no income to help hard-hit people
Churches in Bangladesh have been closed for a long time due to the deteriorating Covid-19 situation. (Photo: Stephan Uttom/UCA News)
Churches in Bangladesh are struggling to provide the faithful with spiritual and pastoral care and to assist marginalized communities amid a drop in donations during the worsening Covid-19 situation.
A deadly third wave of the pandemic hit the country in June as the more contagious Delta variant caused a massive spike in infections and deaths.
Italian missionary and friend of Bangladesh s poor dies at 91
Father Adolfo L Imperio set up schools and hostels to provide education for poor ethnic children
Italian PIME missionary Father Adolfo L Imperio served in Bangladesh for more than four decades. He passed away in Italy at the age of 91 on July 3. (Photo: Dinajpur Diocese)
Catholics in Bangladesh are mourning an Italian missionary priest credited with designing churches and providing vital support for the socioeconomic development of poor and indigenous communities over four decades.
Father Adolfo L’Imperio, a member of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), died on July 3 in Lecco, Italy. He was 91. He had been suffering from various old-age ailments.
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Catholic groups stand with Bangladesh s poor during pandemic
With Covid-19 lockdowns devastating families finances, Catholics have responded with compassion and care
Updated: May 20, 2021 11:48 AM GMT
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Ramesh Majumder was hit hard when the Covid-19 pandemic struck Bangladesh in March last year.
The 42-year-old Hindu father of two from the Dacope area of Khulna district runs a grocery store to provide for his family. Due to the pandemic and consequent lockdown, sales dropped significantly. He was forced to work as an irregular day laborer to support his four-member family.
All of a sudden, he suffered severe chest pain and one of his children fell ill with a fever. He went to various government and private hospitals in Khulna only to be refused admission due to the overflowing number of patients.