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Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified (AP via Yahoo! News)
Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion. Japan's extraordinary but relatively unknown history of Christian persecution is finally receiving recognition in a beatification of 188 martyrs.
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Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified (The Charlotte Observer)
(By YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press Writer) Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion. Japan's extraordinary but relatively unknown history of Christian persecution is finally receiving recognition in a beatification of 188 martyrs. The upcoming ceremony on Monday bestows honors from the Roman Catholic ...
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Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified (The State)
Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion. Japan's extraordinary but relatively unknown history of Christian persecution is finally receiving recognition in a beatification of 188 martyrs. The upcoming ceremony on Monday bestows honors from the Roman Catholic Church that are one step short of sainthood ...
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Benefit will assist youth in Haiti (Winchester Star)
WINCHESTER — More than half of Haitians live on less than $1 a day, and just 43 percent of the population older than 13 can read and write, according to World Bank statistics.
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Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion.
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Japanese Christian martyrs to be beatified (Las Vegas Sun)
Fri, Nov 21, 2008 (6:33 a.m.) Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion.
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Uganda: Kampala Population Boom Worries Mayor (AllAfrica.com)
KAMPALA City mayor Hajji Nasser Sebaggala has expressed concern over the increasing population in the city.
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WCC FEATURE: Sri Lanka's ”forgotten war”: a call for global church advocacy (Worldwide Faith News)
World Council of Churches - Feature Contact: + 41 22 791 6153 +41 79 507 6363 media@wcc-coe.org For immediate release - 20/11/2008 15:10:18 SRI LANKA'S "FORGOTTEN WAR": A CALL FOR GLOBAL CHURCH ADVOCACY >By Annegret Kapp (*) In Sri Lanka, the conflict between the army and Tamil rebels has caught the civilian population between a rock and a hard place.
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Search the Archives (The Pitt News)
Just a century ago, the world population was around 1.65 billion. Today, it stands at 6.74 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In India, millions crowd into the slums of Mumbai and Calcutta, some of the most densely populated areas on the globe.
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U.N.: Gunmen kill woman while trying to rape girl at camp (CNN)
Armed men entered a Congolese camp for displaced people Friday to kidnap and rape a girl, but when the girl screamed, the gunmen fired shots, killing a 20-year-old woman, a U.N. spokesman said.
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