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  12 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wau is calm again although thousands are still sheltering in a church AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Wau is calm again although thousands are still sheltering in a church Juba (Agenzia Fides) - South Sudan authorities have imposed a curfew throughout the State of Wau (north-west South Sudan) aft ...
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  12 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Holy Week of solidarity: Miranda food sharing Los Teques (Agenzia Fides) – "We live in very difficult times marked by scarcity of medicines and security: we must turn our hearts back towards God, He alone can help us overcome these tragic times. And we must ope ...
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  12 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Egyptian Bishop Antonios Mina says Copts have no need of “defense” from abroad AFRICA/EGYPT – Egyptian Bishop Antonios Mina says Copts have no need of “defense” from abroad Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – After the massacres of Coptic Christians, disputes and arguments have resumed also in Egypt� ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Franciscan brother murdered, food provisions for old people and disabled children stolen Aragua (Agenzia Fides) –Franciscan Brother Diego Bedoya, a member of Hermanos Franciscanos de la Cruz Blanca (White Cross Franciscan Brothers) who runs Casa Hogar in the town of La Victoria, Aragua state of Venezuela, ...
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  11 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Winner of the recent Rome female Marathon hails from Catholic Mission in Kofale Kofale (Agenzia Fides) – Rahma Chota Tusa has won the Rome female Marathon for two years running. Rahma was born in Kofale, Ethiopia, where she grew up and trained at the Catholic Mission Sports Centre in Kofale (see ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - Archbishop Valenzuela insists on dialogue, 18 April peace talks third session Asuncion (Agenzia Fides) – Yesterday 10 April Archbishop Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid S.D.B., of Asunción, called on parties opposed to plans for presidential re-election, to reflect and participate in the Dialo ...
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  11 April 2017
  AMERICA/CHILE - Another evangelical church is torched Temuco (Agenzia Fides) – The Bishop of the diocese of Temuco, Héctor Vargas has firmly condemned the latest act of torching of yet another Evangelical church building in the district of Ercilla, yesterday. The gover ...
• 11 April 2017
  AFRICA/MOZAMBIQUE - new Archbishop of Nampula and Apostolico Administrator of Tete appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis, 11 April 2017 has appointed as Archbishop of Nampula (Mozambique) Bishop Inácio Saúre, I.M.C., until now Bishop of Tete. The Holy Father has appointed ...
• 11 April 2017
  ASIA/MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE and BRUNEI - Appointment of PMS National Director Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, on 2 March 2017 appointed national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in ...
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  11 April 2017
  AFRICA - “The problem of youth unemployment must be tackled”: Catholic Bishops of West Africa tell politicians in the region Abidjan (Agenzia Fides)-“Our youth accounts for 65% of the continent’s entire population. Unfortunately the majority are unemployed and exposed to trafficking of people and drugs, to violence and forced migration� ...
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  11 April 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Looking towards Asian Youth Day: young Catholics in Bali focus on faith and dialogue Denpasar (Agenzia Fides) – “Young people are the future of the Church. The Church must be a place which welcomes young people and encourages them to express their faith in various forms of activity”: Fides was ...
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  11 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN - Three thousand take refuge in church to escape violence after two SPLA generals were killed in an ambush Juba (Agenzia Fides)- Two generals of the Southern Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) were killed on Sunday 9 April near the city of Wau, in north western South Sudan on the western bank of the Jur River, in Wau County, Wa ...
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  11 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Copt Catholic Patriarch: let us look to the new martyrs and ask more insistently for Christ to protect us in hope Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The massacres on Palm Sunday “were a test for the faith of Egypt’s Christians. Pope Tawadros is sorrowful and deeply saddened, it is not easy to speak with him. We, seeing what is happening, ...
• 10 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Vicar apostolic of Hosanna resigns, successor appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis, on 8 April 2017, accepted the resignation of the pastoral government of the Apostolic Vicariate of Hosanna (Ethiopia), presented by Bishop Woldeghiorghis ...
• 10 April 2017
  ASIA/VIETNAM - Bishop Coadjutor of Dà Lat appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father, Francis on 8 April 2017, appointed Coadjutor Bishop of the diocese of Dà Lat (Viêt Nam) Rev. Dominic Nguyen Van Manh, Judicial Vicar of the same diocese. Rev. ...