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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. ...
• 10 April 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - New Bishop of Ogoja appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis, on 9 April 2017, appointed Bishop of the diocese of Ogoja, in Nigeria, Rev. Donatus Edet Akpan of the clergy of Ikot Ekpene, presently parish priest in th ...
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  10 April 2017
  AFRICA/GHANA - More than 2000 young Ghanaians send message of hope to their peers in difficulty Accra (Agenzia Fides)-The youth of Ghana must continue to hope despite the many present difficulties. This was the message sent out by two some thousand young Ghanaian Catholics who took part in a two day evangelisation ...
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  10 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - “We must defend our rights but without using violence” says Cardinal Urosa Caracas (Agenzia Fides) – "We must keep calm, acting in a rational manner, seeking the understanding of others. We have said this in many recent messages issued by our Bishops’ Conference: we must defend our rights a ...
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  10 April 2017
  AMERICA/PERU - At the heart of the Peruvian forest prayers are offered for the victims of terrorism in Egypt Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) – The Catholic community in Iquitos, a town at the heart of Peru’s Amazon forest, offered special prayers during yesterday’s Palm Sunday mass for a political and social solution to be foun ...
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  10 April 2017
  ASIA/SRI LANKA - Tea farmers favour sustainable land management Ratnapura (Agenzia Fides) – The tea industry in Sri Lanka, started 150 years ago, continues to be the main engine of the Island’s economy, employing two and half million of its 22 million people. According to the Of ...