Editing 2016 (section)

=== April ===
* [[April 1]]&ndash;[[April 5|5]] &ndash; [[2016 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes]]: Clashes occur along the [[Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact]] with the [[Artsakh Defense Army]], backed by the [[Armenian Armed Forces]], on one side and the [[Azerbaijani Armed Forces]] on the other. The US State Department estimates that a total of 350 people have been killed in the clashes, which have been defined as "the worst" since the [[Bishkek Protocol|1994 ceasefire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://reliefweb.int/report/azerbaijan/nagorno-karabakh-conflict-situation-report-no-1-03-apr-2016 |title=Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Situation Report No. 1 (as of 03 Apr 2016) |publisher=[[ReliefWeb]] |date=2016-04-03 |access-date=2016-04-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404094513/http://reliefweb.int/report/azerbaijan/nagorno-karabakh-conflict-situation-report-no-1-03-apr-2016 |archive-date=2016-04-04}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] &ndash; The [[International Consortium of Investigative Journalists]] (ICIJ) and the German newspaper ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]'' publish the "[[Panama Papers]]", a set of 11.5 million confidential documents from the Panamanian corporate [[Mossack Fonseca]] that provides detailed information on more than 214,000 [[Offshore financial centre|offshore]] companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors [[List of people named in the Panama Papers|including noted personalities and heads of state]].<ref>{{cite news |title=News Group Claims Huge Trove of Data on Offshore Accounts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/04/03/world/europe/ap-panama-papers.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=2016-04-03 |access-date=2016-04-04 |issn=0362-4331 |first1=Natalya |last1=Vasilyeva |first2=Mae |last2=Anderson |archive-date=December 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226144741/https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/04/03/world/europe/ap-panama-papers.html%20 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Pope Francis]]' [[apostolic exhortation]] ''[[Amoris laetitia]]'' (dated March 19) is published in the Vatican; it appears to amend the Roman Catholic Church's position on the availability of [[Sacraments of the Catholic Church|sacraments]] to Catholics who have divorced and contracted a civil remarriage.<ref>{{citation|work=[[L'Osservatore Romano]]|access-date=2017-11-29|url=http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/accompanying-discerning-integrating-weakness|title=Accompanying, Discerning, Integrating Weakness|date=2017-11-21|first=Marc|last=Ouellet|author-link=Marc Ouellet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105200946/http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/accompanying-discerning-integrating-weakness|archive-date=2019-01-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] &ndash; An [[2016 Ecuador earthquake|earthquake of magnitude 7.8]] strikes northwestern [[Ecuador]] killing 676 people and injuring over 6,000. Widespread damage was caused across [[Manabí Province]], with structures hundreds of kilometres away from the epicenter collapsing.
* [[April 23]] &ndash; American singer-songwriter [[Beyoncé]] releases her sixth studio album ''[[Lemonade (Beyoncé album)|Lemonade]]''.