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  21 April 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Elections in Jakarta: Christian governor, defeated. But his trial for blasphemy continues Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - "Power comes from God and it could be taken by God. No one comes to power without God’s permission. Don’t be sad. God knows". With these words, implicitly quoting the Gospel and St. Paul ("o ...
• 21 April 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - A Jesuit kidnapped in southern Nigeria Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - A Jesuit has been kidnapped in southern Nigeria: we are talking about Fr. Samuel Okwuidegbe, a 50-year-old Nigerian Jesuit, who was kidnapped on April 18, on the road connecting Benin City to Onit ...
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  21 April 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - Most Rev. Palmer-Buckle: "If Christians put their faith in practice, Ghana will be a country of unimaginable success" Accra (Agenzia Fides) - "There are more evil deeds propagated and practiced by some Ghanaians professionals in their line of work", said Most Rev Charles Palmer-Buckle, Archbishop of Accra, during the Chrism Holy Mass a ...
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  21 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Protomatyrs of Brazil: examples of Eucharistic devotion, faithfulness to the Church and missionary commitment Rio Grande do Norte (Agenzia Fides) - There is great joy in Rio Grande do Norte after the news that the canonization of the Protomartyrs of Brazil will take place on 15 October: André de Soveral, Ambrosio Francisco Ferr ...
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  21 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - School kits and food for working children Sullana (Agenzia Fides) - The Yachay National Program of the Peruvian Ministry for Women and Vulnerable Populations, in agreement with the Municipality of Sullana, has distributed a total of 50 school kits and food to wo ...
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  21 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Emergency in Mocoa continues and the risk of infection increases Mocoa (Agenzia Fides) - Two weeks after the overflow of the two rivers, Sangoyaco and Mulato (see Fides 3/4/2017), the population of Mocoa still lives in a state of emergency: there is no food, water and medical treatmen ...
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  20 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - Three dead and millions of protesters; For the Bishops: "civil and peaceful protest is not a crime, it is a right!" Caracas (Agenzia Fides) - "Civil and peaceful protest is not a crime. It is a right! Its control cannot be an excessive repression", says the statement of the Bishops' Conference of Venezuela published yesterday. Numerou ...
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  20 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - Qali Warma: breakfast and lunch for pupils in the poorest area of the Apurimac Abancay (Agenzia Fides) - There are altogether 1,334 public school institutions that belong to the extreme poverty areas of the Peruvian region of the Apurímac which receive food from the Qali Warma National School of F ...
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  20 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Al Azhar University rejects allegations of extremism: Islam also defends churches Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Al Azhar University, the most prestigious theological and academic center of Sunni Islam, strongly rejects the criticisms and attacks recently received by Egyptian politicians and intellectuals ...
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  20 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The Episcopal Conference: "The judicial elections must not be politically manipulated" La Paz (Agenzia Fides) - The Bolivian Bishops' Conference (CEB) has asked through a brief message of its Secretary, Fr. José Fuentes, addressed to the civil community and the Bolivian government that the judicial electi ...
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  20 April 2017
  AFRICA/CENTRAL AFRICA - The project of the "Pope Francis" village to remember his visit in 2015 Bangui (Agenzia Fides) - A village called Pope Francis as a meeting place for the various religious communities of the Central African Republic. This is the project that is being studied by the Vatican delegation of expe ...
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  20 April 2017
  AFRICA/UGANDA - Stop hunting Kony: Ugandan militants end the mission in Central Africa against the LRA Leader Kampala (Agenzia Fides) - The Ugandan army has put an end to the capture of Joseph Kony, leader of the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army), a guerrilla movement originally from north Uganda that has for years been raging in par ...
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  20 April 2017
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA - Towards the first humanitarian corridor from Africa Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - A joint operational mission of Caritas Italiana and Sant'Egidio Community is being held in Addis Ababa these days to open the first humanitarian corridor from Africa, according to the protoc ...
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  20 April 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Assyrian leaders of the Syrian opposition received in Moscow by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Moscow (Agenzia Fides) - Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov received a delegation of Assyrian leaders on the various fronts of the Syrian anti-Assad opposition in Moscow. The delegation was led by Nimrud ...
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  19 April 2017
  VATICAN - Tadeusz Wojda, Under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, appointed Archbishop of Bialystok Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Holy Father appointed as Metropolitan Archbishop of Białystok, Poland, Rev. Tadeusz Wojda S.A.C., Under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The announcemen ...