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• 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 ...
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  10 April 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - In a church in Uttar Pradesh Hindu extremists stop prayers New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - “The interruption of prayers in a church is a despicable act which cannot go unpunished ”: Fides was told by Catholic John Dayal, Human Rights activist and secretary general of the All ...
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  10 April 2017
  AFRICA/DR CONGO - “Not only politicians but also civil society to blame for the chaos in Congo” Kinshasa (Agenzia Fides)-The responsibility of the political chaos into which the Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen belongs to the country’s politicians and to its civil society, Fides reads in a report sent from ...
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  10 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Funerals of martyrs held in Tanta. Pope Tawadros: they have passed from sorrow to the joy of being embraced by Christ Tanta (Agenzia Fides) – The funerals of the 29 Copt Christians murdered yesterday, Palm Sunday, in a kamikaze attack in Tanta, north of Cairo, inside a Coptic church dedicated to Saint George, were held late last night ...
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  10 April 2017
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - Christians and Muslims launch joint symbolic olive branch peace campaign ASIA/PAKISTAN – Christians and Muslims launch joint symbolic olive branch peace campaign Lahore (Agenzia Fides) – Christians and Muslim in Pakistan determined to build social and religious peace in that country a ...
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  7 April 2017
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - After Easter the children of Mocoa will go back to school Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - While the number of deaths due to the landslide that hit Mocoa (see Fides 3 and 06/04/2017) continues to increase, the Government is doing its best in allowing more than 12 thousand children to r ...
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  7 April 2017
  AMERICA/HONDURAS - Migrants: those repatriated from the US are 30 percent more compared to 2016 Tegucigalpa (Agenzia Fides) - More than five thousand Hondurans have been deported from the US, this figure exceeds the number of returnees in the first quarter of 2016. In the note sent by Fides Digital press service of ...
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  7 April 2017
  ASIA/BANGLADESH - Christian village attacked by the police: an investigation is urgently needed Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - The Bangladeshi police have carried out gratuitous violence on a Christian village: with this conviction several NGOs call for an independent investigation after the assault of police officers on ...
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  7 April 2017
  ASIA/SYRIA - Syrian Bishop Abou Khazen: baffled by the speed with which the US attack was decided and carried out Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) - "One thing that baffles, in the face of the US military attack on Syrian territory, is the speed with which it was decided and carried out, without any adequate investigation into the tragic mass ...
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  7 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOMALIA - Malnutrition, cholera and diarrhea among children: cases increase Mogadishu (Agenzia Fides) - Thousands of children in Somalia suffer from acute malnutrition, cholera or diarrhea, and the figure is increasing rapidly. According to UNICEF, therapeutic food was given in the months of Jan ...