Cannot sign in to activate facetime or imessage

i am currently overseas and have been using facetime and imessage for the last 6 months to stay in touch with home via wifi.  recently i have been unable to because for some reason i now have to activate them and i cannot sign in to my apple id to do so. does anyone have any advice??

imessage activation An error occurred during activation. Try again.
However, I have tried numerous times, turned phone off and on and still not working

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