• The Catholic University of Angola (Universidade Católica de Angola, UCAN) is a Catholic institution in Angola's capital of Luanda. On 7 August 1992, the...
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    The Catholic Church in Angola is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Catholicism was introduced...
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    Luanda (redirect from Capital of Angola)
    capital and largest city of Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast...
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    University "Our Lady of Good Counsel", Tirana Catholic University of Angola, Luanda Austral University, Buenos Aires Catholic University of Santiago del Estero...
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    Giant sable antelope (category Mammals of Angola)
    of animals that survived during the Angolan Civil War. In January 2004, a group from the Centro de Estudos e Investigação Científica of the Catholic University...
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    Vera Daves (category Women government ministers of Angola)
    in Luanda and has a degree in economics from the Catholic University of Angola. Daves was the head of research for a local bank in 2011, and became a regular...
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    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking)...
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    Africa, Portuguese Angola was a historical colony of the Portuguese Empire (1575–1951), the overseas province Portuguese West Africa of Estado Novo Portugal...
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    The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security...
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  • 1982), footballer Simão (Angolan footballer) (born 1976) Oscar Lino Lopes Fernandes Braga (1931–2020), Roman Catholic bishop of Benguela since 1975 until...
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  • to: Catholic University of Angola (Portuguese: Universidade Católica de Angola), Luanda, Angola Uchen script, a style of the Tibetan alphabet Union of Catholic...
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    The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002. The...
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    Benguela (redirect from Benguella, Angola)
    is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province. Benguela is one of Angola's most populous cities with a population of 555,124 in the city and...
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    Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem (category Members of the National Assembly (Angola))
    of Political Thought, and a member of the Faculty of Law at Catholic University of Angola. Dias Van-Dúnem was the 71st candidate on the MPLA's national...
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  • World War II Angola Educational Assistance Fund, a Boston-based non-profit organization working with the Catholic University of Angola Australian Effects...
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    queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo (1624–1663) and Matamba (1631–1663), located in present-day northern Angola. Born into the ruling family of Ndongo...
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    Jonas Savimbi (category Candidates for President of Angola)
    was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)...
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    Roman Catholics). Both nations are members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, Group of 77 and the United Nations. Both Angola and Brazil...
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    Angola. The number of Portuguese Angolans precipitously dropped during and immediately after the Angolan War of Independence, but several hundreds of...
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    Distribution of Catholics The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with...
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    Filomeno do Nascimento Vieira Dias (category 21st-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Angola)
    Nascimento Vieira Dias (born 18 April 1958) is an Angolan prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of Luanda since 2015; he was an auxiliary bishop...
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  • Catholic University of Brasília (Portuguese: Universidade Católica de Brasília, UCB) is a private, non-profit, Roman Catholic university located in Taguatinga...
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  • Neto University (Portuguese: Universidade Agostinho Neto) is the largest public university of Angola, based in Luanda and in the nearby city of Talatona...
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    Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict...
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  • Angolan Americans (Portuguese: angolano-americanos) are an ethnic group of Americans of Angolan descent or Angolan immigrants. According to estimates,...
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    Ovimbundu (category Ethnic groups in Angola)
    mainly the Igreja Evangélica Congregacional de Angola (IECA), founded by American missionaries, and the Catholic Church. However, some still retain beliefs...
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    Education in Angola has six years of compulsory education, under the Angolan Education Law (13/01) of 31 December 2001. Basic adult literacy continues...
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    The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the pope. With 23 percent of the United States' population...
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  • Angola does not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions. The Family Code of Angola recognizes de facto unions but only for opposite-sex couples and...
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  • Damião António Franklin (category 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Angola)
    2014) was an Angolan prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the fifth Archbishop of Luanda. Damião Franklin was born in Cabinda, Angola, and ordained...
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