UEFA's 'Women's football across the national associations 2017' report shows how the female game has evolved over the past five years, and offers a snapshot of the sport in each of UEFA's 55 member associations.

CNA Staff, Mar 31, 2020 / 06:01 pm (CNA).- Local media in Nicaragua are reporting that despite the nation’s bishops’ conference suspending Mass and prohibiting large gatherings, the mayor of Granada is going ahead with an annual pilgrimage that the bishops had canceled.

For more than 150 years, Catholics in Nicaragua have venerated an image of Jesus del Rescate (Jesus of the Rescue) in Popoyuapa, near the city of Rivas. The image represents the crowning of thorns and the flogging of Christ.

Normally there is an annual pilgrimage to the image, which pilgrims make by wagon and on foot, during the "Week of Sorrows" that marks "the final stretch" of the time of Lent, according to ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish language news partner.

However, the bishops have said that this year it will not be possible to carry it out in the traditional way, given the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Nevertheless, Julia Mena, mayor of Granada, has organized and funded a group of pilgrims to do the pilgrimage, providing them with food and personal hygiene supplies, according to the Nicaraguan news website Confidencial. The priest at the shrine told Confidencial that he has “no plans to receive the pilgrimage.”

The Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference has not commented publicly on the matter.

Nicaragua has five confirmed cases of COVID-19. The government has not yet decreed any kind of alert or emergency regarding the pandemic, nor has it ordered a suspension of classes, Confidencial reports.

The country’s Ministry of Health has maintained that the internal movements of travelers arriving from countries with outbreaks of coronavirus would not be restricted, La Prensa reports.

President Daniel Ortega has been president of Nicaragua since 2007, and oversaw the abolition of presidential term limits in 2014.

The Church had suggested that elections, which are not scheduled until 2021, be held this year, but Ortega has ruled this out.

Ortega was a leader in the Sandinista National Liberation Front, which had ousted the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 and fought US-backed right-wing counterrevolutionaries during the 1980s. Ortega was also leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990.

The arts, geography, economics, and foreign languages will lose their place in the testing line-up as the National Assessment of Educational Progress is being streamlined to cut costs.

The Washington Post report may force the White House to reconsider relaxing trade restrictions on Huawei, which is currently blacklisted from sourcing components from US technology suppliers.

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Satellites could transfer data directly to Apple's devices and reduce dependency on wireless carriers, Bloomberg reports. It's another sign Apple wishes to replace most outside partners with in-house technologies in the next decade.

Members of EURO2016.com's crack reporting team in France named their highlights of the past month, including their favourite match, moment and song.

In this first extract from the new UEFA EURO 2016 technical report, the expert panel reflect on the decreasing proportion of goals scored from counterattacks.

In the second extract from the new UEFA EURO 2016 technical report, the expert panel look at which teams relied on long passing and when it proved effective.

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The 32 teams that will take part in March's elite round have been decided.

The full line-up for May's finals has been decided with holders the Netherlands leading the qualifiers.

The elite round line-up is complete with best third-placed teams Greece and Bulgaria joining the top two in each group.

Breidablik, Mitrovica, Hibernian, Minsk, ŽFK Spartak, BIIK-Kazygurt, Braga, Anderlecht, Twente and Vllaznia made it through.

Holders Lyon, former winners Arsenal and Wolfsburg, plus past finalists Barcelona, Paris and Fortuna all progressed.

See which 28 teams are through to the elite round after the 11 qualifying round groups ended.

Victoria Petersen, of the Peninsula Clarion on the Kenai Peninsula, will report on the challenges of rural education, especially in a state as vast as Alaska.

Holders Barcelona and fellow two-time winners Chelsea are among the teams through from the round of 16.

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The employee had travelled from Polokwane with four other colleagues who are currently in isolation at the mine's health facility.

Intel's domination will continue as Qualcomm is set to quit after just seven months of trying.

Bloomberg says People's Liberation Army operatives added tiny, nefarious microchips to server motherboards made by Super Micro and used by Apple and Amazon, among others. All three companies pushed back hard on the story.

Apple AirPods are set to get some new competition from Amazon, and I'd bet money on Alexa Earbuds being significantly cheaper than Apple's offering.

Internal documents reveal Amazon sees this as a health and wellness product that's voice-activated and controlled via a smartphone app.

New reporting portal allows reports of child abuse to be received via mobile & other devices

The elite round line-up is complete with the likes of holders Inter FS, Barça, Benfica, Sporting, Ugra and Kairat making progress.

The line-up for October's main round is set after 16 teams progressed from the preliminary round on the road to Lithuania.

Csíkszereda, Georgians, Hovocubo, Leo, Luxol St Andrews, Omonia, Shkupi, Toulon and Weilimdorf went through.

Holders Sporting CP and former winners Barça, Benfica and Kairat plus several debutants are into the elite round.

The 16 elite round contenders have been decided with the successful sides also earning byes in EURO qualifying.

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