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  26 April 2017
  AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - Capuchin father killed in attack on friary, deacon wounded Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides) - Malagasy Capuchin Friar, aged 46, Fr. Lucien Njiva, was killed during the night of 22 April at the Friary in Ambendrana Antsohihy. Fides was told by Rev. Eric Franck Randriamiandrinirinari ...
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  26 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Bishops urge people to join national strike “to defend rights acquired, and defend the life and dignity of every person” Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) –Bishop Francesco Biasin of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda, has urged the people of his diocese to join the general strike called by unions for 28 April. "I urge you all to take part, to make ...
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  26 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Abuse and violence on minors: no decrease in cases involving even newborn babies Bogota (Agenzia Fides) – According to official figures, in Colombia an act of sexual abuse is reported every 120 minutes. Of every ten cases, seven of the victims are children. In 80% of the cases reported, the aggre ...
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  25 April 2017
  EUROPE/ITALY - World Malaria Day: most at risk the weakest, children and pregnant women Padova (Agenzia Fides) – On April 25 the World Health Organisation WHO marks World Malaria Day in order to increase awareness of the problem of Malaria in the world: a disease which in 2016 registered 212 million ca ...
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  25 April 2017
  AMERICA/ UNITED STATES - Like his recent predecessors President Trump avoids the term Armenian Genocide Washington – (Agenzia Fides) – American President Donald Trump, on Monday 24 April, issued an official statement on the planned massacre 102 years ago of Armenians in the Anatolian Peninsula, but avoided referring to ...
• 25 April 2017
  AFRICA/NIGERIA - Jesuit abducted on 18 April, released Abuja (Agenzia Fides)- The Jesuit priest, Fr. Samuel Okwuidegbe, aged 50, abducted by unidentified persons on 18 April on the road from Benin City to Onitsha, was released on Saturday 22 April. The details of his releas ...
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  25 April 2017
  EUROPE/SPAIN - Libropensadores: encouraging local children to read and collect funds to help other less fortunate school children in Cote d’Ivoire Saragozza (Agenzia Fides) – Once again this year Fundación Canfranc and Fundación Caja Inmaculada are launching Libropensadores campaigns inviting young people of Aragon to read more while developing a project for ...
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  25 April 2017
  AFRICA/ZAMBIA - Corrupt politics and tribalism undermine national unity Lusaka (Agenzia Fides)- Tribalism, regionalism and degeneration of political activity threaten Zambia’s national unity. This is denounced by Rev. Cleophas Lungu, Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops’ Conferen ...
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  25 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Pope Francis tells the Egyptian people: I am honoured to visit the land visited by the Holy Family Rome (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Francis is happy to visit “as a friend, as a messenger of peace, and a pilgrim to the country that, over two thousand years ago, gave refuge and hospitality to the Holy Family as they fle ...
• 24 April 2017
  AFRICA/KENYA - Resignation of the Archbishop of Nyeri, successor appointed Città del Vaticano (Agenzia Fides) – The Holy Father Francis on 23 April 2017 accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Nyeri (Kenya), presented by Archbishop Peter J. Kairo. The Po ...
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  24 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - New window for the evangelising activity of the Catholic Church in Brazil Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) – On 26 April the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Brazil (CNBB) will launch its new portal www.cnbb.org.br. The aim, says Auxiliary Bishop of Brasilia and CNBB secretary, is to give new im ...
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  24 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - Closeness and solidarity for Venezuela also from the Catholic Church in Colombia Bogotà (Agenzia Fides) – “Closeness and solidarity has been voiced by the Catholic Church in Colombia towards the people of Venezuela, and the present difficult situation in that country” as expressed already by t ...
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  24 April 2017
  ASIA/NEPAL - Two years after earthquake child trafficking thrives Katmandu (Agenzia Fides) – April 25 marks the 2nd anniversary of the earthquake in Nepal which left 9,000 dead, more than 700,000 homes destroyed and at least three million people in dire need of assistance. “Two ...
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  24 April 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Empathise more with the sufferings of the people”: local Bishops say political impasse must be overcome Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)- The appointment of Bruno Tshibala as Premier of the Democratic Republic of Congo “is a distortion of the New Year’s Eve Agreements” the Catholic Bishops of DR Congo declare in a statem ...
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  24 April 2017
  VATICAN - Pope Francis: “The Church is Church if she is a Church of martyrs” Roma (Agenzia Fides) – “The memory of these heroic, early and recent witnesses confirms us in the awareness that the Church is a Church of martyrs… and martyrs are those who had the grace to confess Jesus until the ...