The Macua are the largest ethnic group in Mozambique, and the following describes some of their cultural traits. The region inhabited by the Macua overlooks the Indian Ocean to the east, with more than 600 km of coastline, and it covers an area of about 200,000 sq km. It is bordered to the north, towards Tanzania, […]
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The train station is their small city; the street is their home; friends are their family. These are the stories of the street children of New Delhi. Tajdar is 12 years old, and he cannot even remember when he started to live on the street. He arrived in New Delhi with his cousin Dakshi, who
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The tiny Nepalese Catholic Church is organised into 8 parishes with 39 churches, 16 local priests, 60 religious, and 165 sisters — all in a single vicariate. The total Catholic community comprises around eight thousand people. Since the arrival of the Portuguese Jesuit João Cabral at the Nepalese court in 1628, the Church of Nepal has
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The Maban people are a Nilotic group of about 700,000 people. They live in 15,000 sq km in the Sudanese region of Malakal, near the Ethiopian border. This community makes its living working in the fields. The Maban divide the year into two semesters, rather than 12 months. The rainy season lasts from April to
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In the north of Thailand, a small Christian community proclaims its faith among the great majority of Buddhists. This is the testimony of Monsignor Francis Xavier Vira Arpondratana, Bishop of Chiang Mai. The fifty-eight-year-old Bishop said: “Chiang Mai means ‘new city’ in the local language. It is the capital of the province with the same
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After their childhood have been marked by unspeakable cruelty, former child soldiers find hospitality at the school run by Sister Rosemary, where they learn a trade and learn to be loved. Restoring dignity and confidence to former child soldiers is a difficult task, but Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe has no doubt that it is a challenge
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U.N. rights investigators have accused Eritrean leaders of crimes against humanity, including torture, rape, and murder, and called on the Security Council to impose sanctions and refer the case to the International Criminal Court. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea has said atrocities in the country – which include an indefinite military national service programme that
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Masks, magical movements, singing: the wisdom of the village is passed down from generation to generation, year after year. It is a warm morning, and all the inhabitants of Lanta Kope, a small village in southern Benin, have gathered to attend the Gelede festival, which takes place when the dry season ends and when the
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Singing praises and dancing, thousands of people have undertaken a pilgrimage to worship the Lord Vitthal, a Hindu God. A spiritual journey. On the eleventh day of Aashaadh (in June/July), a multitude of devotees, having undertaken an arduous two-week journey on foot, descend on the temple town of Pandharpur in Maharashtra, in the western region of India.
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A small diocese, whose nuns and priests have endeared themselves to the local population with their social commitment and support. In Mauritania, 99.5% of the 3.4 million inhabitants are Muslim. Catholics, mostly foreigners, represent just 0.1% of the country’s population. The number of non-immigrant Christians in the country is unknown. Conversions to any religion but
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