Back from a visit with Myanmar exiles, CISL trade union leader Savinio Pezzotta calls for greater help to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. In a letter to Italy's Foreign Minister, he denounces trade between Italian companies and Yangon's military junta.
Interview with Francesco Zannini, professor of Contemporary Islam at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI). The Middle East has not yet reconciled the democratic worldview centred on the individual and that of Islam which is inspired by tradition. There is however hope in Iraq and elsewhere for change.
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His proposal to match economic with political reforms is still a valid one. Zhao is also remembered for having reopened Catholic churches and for having given religious freedom.
New government guidelines claim to "guarantee religious freedom". But, apart from the odd new element, they reconfirm minute control over people, places and activities.
Comments on John Paul II's Message for the World Day of Peace.
Christians are subject to discrimination, violence, abductions. Yet the Basic Agreement with the Holy See is among the best documents on Church/State relations in the Islamic world.
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We want the government to condemn fanatical organisations and provide minorities much needed legal protection, Catholic leader John Dayal says.
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