Denver, Colo., Jul 19, 2017 / 08:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Facebook has restored more than twenty Catholic pages in Portuguese and English that were blocked yesterday for unknown reasons. Between the night of 17 and the morning of July 18, Facebook unpublished at least 25 pages - 21 in Portuguese and 4 in English - without giving an explanation to page administrators. The blocked Catholic pages each had between hundreds of thousands and 6 million followers.
Hours after CNA and other media published a story about the blocked pages, around 1 a.m. in the morning July 19, all blocked pages had been returned to normal. In statements collected by ChurchPop.com, Carlos René, administrator of the page "Papa Francisco Brazil", said that the page was available again "without notification. I just realized that it was already on the air. "
So far, Facebook has not given any explanation of the blocking or restoration of the page. The owners and administrators of sites such as Father Rocky, Catholic and Proud, and Jesus and said they simply realized that their pages had returned to work after seeing their accounts were back online.
Some administrators of the previously blocked pages told ChurchPop.com that they had sent lawyers to the Facebook offices in Brazil to demand that the pages be restored, although it is unclear if this was a decisive factor in the restorations.
