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Hindu organisations Tuesday continued their protest against Nepal’s secularisation, once the world’s only Hindu kingdom, with parts of southern Nepal being shut down as protesters called a 48-hour closure.
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“Concern and hope” is how Dutch bishops sum up the Church’s situation in their country. In a report presented during their five-yearly visit to the Vatican, entitled The Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands at the Start of a New Millennium, the prelates paint a sobering picture.
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Proponents of the secularisation thesis will be challenged by the findings of a new survey in the US which says TV news coverage of religion has increased significantly over the last ten years.
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