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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 ...
• 19 April 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Resignation of the Bishop of Manado, appointment of successor Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On April 12, 2017 the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Manado, Indonesia, presented by His Excellency Msgr. Joseph Theodorus Suwatan, M.S.C., ...
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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/VENEZUELA - 35-year-old priest dies due to the lack of medicines Merida (Agenzia Fides) – On Holy Saturday, April 15, according to information sent to Fides from Merida (Venezuela), father José Luis Arismendi, 35, died due to the lack of medicines. For two days the priest waited fo ...
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  19 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Terrorist attack against the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - Gunmen opened fire on an Egyptian police checkpoint near Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai late on Tuesday, April 18, killing one policeman and wounding four officials. ISIS claimed responsibil ...
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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/BRAZIL - Report "Conflicts in the countryside of Brazil 2016": 1,295 cases, 61 murders Brasilia (Agenzia Fides) - The Report "Conflicts in the countryside of Brazil 2016", drawn up by the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), at the headquarters of the Episcopal Conference (CNBB), in Brasilia was presented. 1,29 ...
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  19 April 2017
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - "0 street children" program: education and rehabilitation Cochabamba (Agenzia Fides) - With the intention of preventing children under 12 years of age living in the street, the Office for the Protection of Childhood and Adolescence of the City of Cochabamba, is carrying out the ...
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  19 April 2017
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - Motion of no confidence against Zuma; "Vote according to conscience": appeal from Justice and Peace to parlamentarians Johannesburg (Agenzia Fides) – There is tension in South Africa where in recent days tens of thousands of people took to the streets to demand the resignation of South African President Jacob Zuma, involved in a series ...
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  19 April 2017
  ASIA/INDONESIA - Elections in Jakarta, Christian candidate defeated Jakarta (Agenzia Fides) - While the vote count is underway, all the projections made on the basis of polling stations already counted in the runoff election ballot for the election of the new governor of Jakarta attribut ...
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  12 April 2017
  AMERICA/PARAGUAY - “To run for re-election is inopportune and a threat to peace”, says Bishop Jubinville San Pedro (Agenzia Fides) – “Inopportune and a threat to peace”. This is how the Bishop of San Pedro, Pierre Laurent Jubinville, C.S.Sp., regards a proposed bill to change Paraguay’s Constitution, in order to al ...
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  12 April 2017
  AFRICA/EGYPT - Following Palm Sunday massacre Easter for Coptic Christians in Egypt will be quiet prayer remembering the victims Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Easter for the Copt community here will be celebrated quietly in a spirit of prayer and in remembrance of those killed in the Palm Sunday attack last week. Traditional Copt meetings with state, ...
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  12 April 2017
  ASIA/INDIA - Holy Week marred by episodes of religious intolerance New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) – Christians in India fear new episodes of intolerance and disturbance during this Easter season. Fides received reports of incidents in six different states of India, episodes of harassmen ...
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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 ...