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Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over recently from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand in a queue to receive food being distributed near Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks, after security forces and allied mobs retaliated to a series of attacks by Muslim militants last month by burning down thousands of Rohingya homes in the predominantly Buddhist
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Rohingya Muslims are being wiped off Myanmar's map
Robin McDowell - Associated Press September 19, 2017

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, the minority ethnic group is being wiped off the map.

Faith Features
How the top-heavy Catholic Church is losing the ground game in China
Ian JohnsonSeptember 18, 2017
Even if relations improve with the government, the Catholic Church in China needs evangelization efforts to grow beyond a devout but tiny membership.
Arts & Culture Television
Ken Burns’s ‘Vietnam’ revisits a barbaric war and asks, what went wrong?
Raymond A. SchrothSeptember 13, 2017
For nearly 20 years, the United States was severely divided by race, and a generational split not seen since the Civil War.
Exhausted Rohingya refugees rest on the shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, after crossing by boat through the Bay of Bengal on Sept. 10. (CNS photo/Danish Siddiqui, Reuters)
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Aid workers see humanitarian crisis as Rohingya flee to Bangladesh
Catholic News ServiceSeptember 12, 2017
Members of Myanmar's minority Rohingya group face violence even as they flee the country as the humanitarian situation turns desperate.
Rohingya refugees walk to shore in Teknaf, Bangladesh, with their belongings after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border through the Bay of Bengal on Sept. 5. (CNS photo/Mohammad Ponir Hossain, Reuters)
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U.N. human rights chief: Rohingya face 'textbook example of ethnic cleansing'
Jamey Keaten - Associated PressSeptember 11, 2017
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, spoke about human rights concerns around the world, highlighting in particular the targeting of Myanmar's Rohingya minority.
Philippine police are seen in Pasay City on Sept. 6. Manila Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle ordered church bells to ring in that archdiocese every evening starting Sept. 14 to remember the thousands of people killed in the government's campaign against drug dealers and addicts. (CNS photo/Mark R. Cristino, EPA)
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Cardinal Tagle asks Philippine Catholic churches to ring bells to remember drug-war deaths
Catholic News ServiceSeptember 11, 2017
"We cannot allow the destruction of lives to become normal. We cannot govern the nation by killing. We cannot foster a humane and decent Filipino culture by killing."
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