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Lagos (Agenzia Fides) - Nigeria is witnessing a worrying increase in ethnic-religious violence. Nigeria, the "African giant", Africa's most populous country, home of Afrobeat and Nollywood - one of the most thriving film industries in the world in terms of the number of annual productions - is the continent's leading economy: its gross domestic product accounts for 25% of the total African economy. Nigeria is thus a country caught between growth and poverty: According to the World Poverty Clock, 41% of the population live on less than 2 euros a day (...) (CD) (Agenzia Fides, 30/4/2022)
AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - President Kiir meets bishops: "There is hope for peace"
AFRICA/DR CONGO - Cardinal Besungu denounces the waste of money for constitutional reform: "We must take care of young people"
ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Seoul launches measures to combat increasing loneliness
ASIA/EAST TIMOR - The Prime Minister of East Timor: reconciliation with Indonesia is an example to follow in our time torn apart by wars
AFRICA/GHANA- Bishops: "The President should sign the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill"
ASIA/INDONESIA - The population of Indonesian Papua opposes the new "Transmigrasi"