Allegretto Nuzi - Cristo Morto
proclaiming Christ means showing
that believing in Him and following Him
is not only true and right, but also beautiful
zondag 30 mei 2021
vrijdag 28 mei 2021
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Your first connection...
with the Universe must be prayer...
because prayer is what will prepare your consciousness to cross the dimensions and to be worthy of finding God and His Universal and Divine Truth.
In order to enter the gates and reveal the most sublime mysteries of the infinite Cosmos, you must first enter the gates of your own consciousness, revealing the muck [mest, vuil] and the mud that you have to transform before reaching God.
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Both to cross the gates of the Cosmos, and to cross the gates of your own inner self, there is something that your consciousness must know. Without love, nothing will be revealed to you.
Love is what makes you worthy of being with God, and the same love is what allows you to deal with the miseries of your consciousness, transforming them in the correct way.
In prayer, you will learn how to love. Therefore, pray and let God Himself be the one who conducts your consciousness to the gates that you are ready to cross.
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Do not fear, child...
because both self-knowledge and the knowledge of the Cosmos are sources of wisdom and evolution, they are revelations which complement each other, and are necessary for you to fully return to the Heart of the Father, even though you are alive.
Just as when we say that there are living dead people, it is also possible to return to God in consciousness, and continue within this world. Thus, the beings will be in God, in His Thoughts, in His Feeling, in His Mind, in His Heart, and like a pencil in His Hands, they will draw the manifestation of His Plan on Earth.
Everything starts with prayer.
But not empty prayer, with distractions or by obligation.
It all begins when the beings learn the true value of praying...
and they pray with their hearts.
Your Father and Friend
The Most Chaste
Saint Joseph
maandag 24 mei 2021
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panorama uit 1902:
Jeruzalem in het jaar 33
van Gebhard Flugel [†1939]
historie- en frescoschilder...
een geestverwant van Mesdag [†1915]
Gebhard Fugel, bekend als historie- en frescoschilder in kerken...
was al voor het Jeruzalem-Panorama in het Beierse Altötting betrokken bij twee andere panorama's met religieuze thema's. In 1895 bij een panorama met eveneens het thema kruisiging voor de bede-vaartplaats Kevelaer, in de Duitse deelstaat Noordrijn-Westfalen, niet ver van de Nederlandse grens. En ook bij een panorama met het thema Bethlehem, dat in 1901 in Zürich werd getoond.
Beide panoramaschilderijen zijn verloren gegaan.
Wereldwijd zijn er nog twee panorama's...
die de kruisiging van Jezus Christus als thema hebben.
Eveneens in bedevaartplaatsen:
Het Panorama Einsiedeln in het Zwitserse stadje Einsiedeln. Het werd in 1893 geopend. In 1960 werd het door brand verwoest, maar kort daarna in een vrijere stijl opnieuw geschilderd.
En het Cyclorama van Jeruzalem in het Canadese bedevaartsoord Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, ten noordoosten van de stad Quebec. Daarvoor, van 1889 tot 1895, werd het in Montreal getoond.
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De oorsprong van de wereldwijde bekendheid...
van Altötting [alt Ötting, in Beieren...] als bedevaartsoord, ligt in een gebeurtenis in de 15e eeuw.
In het jaar 1489 viel een driejarige jongetje in een door Altötting stromende beek. Het kind werd door het water meegesleurd en na een half uur levenloos teruggevonden. De radeloze moeder nam het kind en snelde naar de lokale Mariakapel, legde de jongen op het altaar en bad vurig, samen met andere gelovigen, voor de redding van het kind.
De gebeden werd verhoord...
en het leven keerde terug in het lichaam van het jongetje...
Uit dankbaarheid bouwden de dorpelingen een kapel...
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July 27th, 2020 !
Archbishop Klyment...
Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Crimea...
has been ordered to demolish an Orthodox chapel in Yevpatoria, and threatened with criminal prosecution if he does not comply within five days.
The Archbishop received the document from the so-called Crimean bailiffs’ service on 23 July. This states that if the church, occupying a merely 30 m², is not removed within this time, criminal proceedings could be brought against the Archbishop under Article 315 of Russia’s criminal code.
The document itself is dated 15 May 2020, and asserts that the Crimean Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine must, within a month from when the court ruling comes into force, demolish the church in question.The move to get the church removed came from the Russian occupation authorities in Yevpatoria.
The Archbishop points out that construction of the church began before 2014 and Russia’s annexation, and that the Church has all the relevant documentation. The Russian occupiers are claiming this is not the case. The original order was issued in November 2019.
Russia’s persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church began soon after its invasion and annexation. Moscow presumably understood that open repression by the occupation authorities (as opposed to the attacks on churches and their believers by the Russian and pro-Russian armed paramilitaries) could lead to further sanctions.
It focused therefore on onerous [lastige] and in many cases unacceptable demands that religious communities re-register under Russian legislation, and on depriving the Church of its land and places of worship.
The Russian occupiers claimed that the land, which, under Ukrainian law, was the property of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, was ‘federal Russian property’ which the Archbishop was illegally occupying.
In just [alleen al in] the first year after annexation, 38 out of 46 parishes ceased to exist. Of 25 priests in 2014, only four remained by the end of 2018. The last five to have left, did so after searches of members of the Ukrainian Cultural Centre and mounting difficulties created for people without Russian citizenship.
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The greatest cataclysm...
came upon Zarvanytsia with the advent of Soviet rule.
The monastery was burned to the ground, along with its church. The parochial church of the Holy Trinity was closed, and turned into a warehouse. The miraculous spring surrounded with barbed wire [prikkeldraad] and turned into a dump [vuilnisbelt].
During major holy days, the entire village was blocked by the militia. In 1946, the entire Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was officially banned by the Communists, and made subject to the Moscow Patriarchate. Despite this, the Catacomb Church continued to function here, with the icons safely hidden, and Divine Liturgy celebrated in private houses, or the surrounding forests.
Even a secret seminary opened, in 1975.
With the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union, on 17 July 1988...
over 10,000 faithful gathered in Zarvanytsia to commemorate the millennium of Christianity in Ukraine, celebrated by Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk. On 23 November 1989, the Divine Liturgy could for the first time in half a century be celebrated in the church of the Holy Trinity.
In 1991, the year Ukraine regained independence, the church was repaired, and the chapel at the spring was rebuilt, as was the monastery of the Studite Brethren with its church of the Nativity of the Mother of God.
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In 1991...
the shrine was visited by Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, the head of the Ukrainian Church, and in 1993 by archbishop Volodymyr Sterniuk, locum tenens of the Church in Ukraine in the years 1972-1991. In April 1995, mass celebrations were held, commending the Ukrainian nation to the protection of the Mother of God, renewing the vows Yaroslav the Wise made in 1037, and in 1996 celebrating the 400th anniversary of the restoration of communion with the Catholic Church in the Union of Brest.
In July 1997, the beginning of the Ukrainian preparations for the Great Jubilee was officially announced here. And in 1999, Ukrainian martyrs of the 20th century were commemorated. In 2000, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar celebrated the first Divine Liturgy in the newly built sobor of the Mother of God of Zarvanytsia. During the pilgrimage of Pope John Paul II to Ukraine, in 2001, he prayed before the icon of the Mother of God of Zarvanytsia in the church of St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker on Askoldova Mohyla in Kiev.
In 2002 the Patriarchal Council of the Ukrainian Church was concluded in Zarvanytsia, gathering Church delegates from around the world. In 2003, an ecumenical pilgrimage by the Orthodox Brotherhood of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle was held. In August 2004, Zarvanytsia hosted an international pilgrimage of reconciliation between Poles and Ukrainians, led by Cardinal Husar and the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Joseph Glemp, together with fifteen bishops from both nations.
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The new church...
largest in the Podolia and visible far outside the village and well inscribed into the landscape, has a single nave Byzantine cross-dome plan with five cupolas representing Christ and the four Evangelists. Along with the gates, the church of Annunciation, bell tower and chapels it has been built largely by donations from the Ukrainian diaspora as the country's economic situation is still ravaged by extreme poverty.
Along with the Holy Dormition Lavra in Univ and the monastery of the Basilian Fathers in Krekhiv, Zarvanytsia is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in Ukraine. It is the destination of an annual youth pilgrimage and numerous eparchial pilgrimages from the farthest corners of Ukraine and Ukrainian parishes abroad and even some Latin rite faithful from neighboring countries such as Poland and Slovakia.
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The history of the village and the icon...
dates back to the 13th century.
In 1240, a monk fled the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, which was devastated by a Mongol invasion, and stopped in a secluded valley to drink water from a spring and pray to the Blessed Virgin.
Having done so, and exhausted by the long travel, he fell asleep and saw the Mother of God. After awakening completely rejuvenated, he found the icon, and decided to stay there, and build a chapel by the spring, to house the icon.
News of the miraculous icon spread among the local population, and reached the - gravely sick - duke of Terebovlia Vasylko, brother of the only Ukrainian king Danylo of Halych. The duke ordered the icon to be brought to him. But when the monk refused, he himself traveled to Zarvanytsia, and prayed in front of the icon, and was cured.
Out of gratitude...
he founded a church ánd monastery there.
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The first written mention of the settlement...
dates to 1458.
Ruins of fortifications from around that time...
can still be found in the village.
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During the years 1662-1688...
the village was plundered by Turks.
And the church was burned down.
But the icon was saved...
and placed in a newly built church.
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In 1740...
another icon, of the Crucified Christ...
was also placed in Zarvaytisa, and two years later crowned by Metropolitan Athanasius Sheptytsky.
In 1754 the fourth church, this time out of stone, was built to replace a wooden one which was destroyed in a fire. The site of the wooden church is marked by a stone cross. This church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity still stands today.
In 1867 Pope Pius IX granted Zarvanytsia the status of a sanctuary, and the icon of the Mother of God was crowned, thanks to the efforts of local priest Fr Porfiriy Mandyczewsky.
In 1916, during World War I, the village and the monastery were badly damaged, but they were rebuilt six years later with the help of Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky who personally visited Zarvanytsia. Joseph Slipyj, the future leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, also frequently visited the shrine.
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zondag 23 mei 2021
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George Preca (†1962)...
was a Maltese Catholic priest and the founder of the Society of Christian Doctrine as well as a Third Order Carmelite. He is known as "Dun Ġorġ" in Maltese and Pope John Paul II dubbed him "Malta’s second father in faith".
He assumed the religious name of "Franco" after becoming a Secular Carmelite. He was a popular figure among some groups, and his pastoral care and religious teaching earned recognition. However, his activities raised suspicions of heresy from senior clergy. He was ordered to close down his teaching centres for a time, while they could be investigated. They were subsequently re-opened.
His activism earned him praise, and in 1952 Pope Pius XII nominated him as a Papal Privy Chamberlain and awarded the rank of Monsignor. In 1957 he composed five new mysteries for the Rosary for his followers, which he had referred to as the "Mysteries of Light" [!!!].
He was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2007.
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On August 29 of 2003...
the late President Guido de Marco unveiled a monument to Frenċ tal-Għarb.
A number of poems were read by Jonathan Mintoff, Noel Fabri and Lorna Cassar, together with musical pieces by the Mosta Scout Group, a talk on Frenċ's life by historian Rev. Dr Joseph Bezzina, and some testimonial to a cure through the intercession of Frenċ tal-Għarb.
The life-size monument, by the Gozitan sculptor Alfred Camilleri Cauchi, was cast in bronze at the Bonvicini brothers' foundry in Verona, Italy.
The monument was blessed by the local archpriest, Mgr Carmelo Gauci. Għarb mayor David Apap, Fr Bezzina and former President de Marco made speeches for the occasion.
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Francis Xavier Mercieca (†1967)...
more commonly known as Frenċ tal-Għarb...
was a farmer and faith healer from the village of Għarb in Gozo.
He was a service apostle of Our Lady of Ta' Pinu. Frenċ tal-Għarb was born on 3 December 1892, one of twelve children. Like most other families in Gozo, Mercieca's family had also a nickname: they were known as "Tas-Sajf", literally meaning "Of the Summer".
From an early age Frenċ had to work in the fields of his family. His primary education came to a halt at the age of twelve years, because his father required his services in the fields from dusk till dawn. In 1917, his father died at the age of 75. Some members of Frenċ's family emigrated, whilst others got married.
Frenċ was influenced by the kind-hearted and pious character of his mother Beneditta. During the years of World War I, she would often share her crops with other villagers, thus alleviating the problems of famine in other families.
The kind-heartedness of Frenċ's family is also shown by the fact, that they accommodated in their household two priests: Rev. Can Paul Custo and Rev. Nazju Axiak. The latter lived with the family from 1920 till his death in 1947.
Frenċ, who remained a bachelor throughout his life, was an active member of the Catholic Action movement, which had a presence in his village. He had a great devotion towards the Blessed Virgin Of Ta' Pinu and towards the Holy Eucharist. Frenċ used to take part in village theatrical productions, better known as “teatrin”. His part, very often, was that of a clown. People used to flock to the village hall to watch Frenċ.
Frenċ spent most of his life working in the fields. When he returned home, he used to find a lot of people, coming all walks of life, waiting for him. They would seek his counsel, and were eager to listen to his advice, and to elicit from him prayers for their needs. Frenċ combined his old knowledge in old medicinal herbs, his prayers and his faith in Our Lady for his cures, and his reputation spread rapidly throughout the entire Maltese Islands and even abroad.
Very often he would anticipate the questions that people were going to pose to him. He even disclosed to some of his visitors incidents from their own past, especially their past wrongdoings. A reprimand and a call for repentance would normally follow. In some cases he even is said to have foretold the future.
Frenċ, who never studied medicine and never worked in a medical environment, was considered by many inhabitants of the Maltese Islands as a healer of body and soul.
On 6 August 1966...
Frenċ was interviewed by the late Charles Arrigo on Malta's cable radio system which was then run by Rediffusion. In this interview, Frenċ stated that certain members of the medical profession were skeptical of what he was doing. He was even taken to court where, on 11 June 1938, he was charged with unauthorized medical practice.
Although found guilty, he was not fined anything, due to his clean conduct. This incident did not stop the public from continuing to visit Frenċ, who under constant police surveillance refused to accept any visitors.
Someone informed Frenċ about a loophole in the law - he could see people who were accompanied by a medical certificate, indicating, amongst other things, what treatment was required from him, e.g. massage of the feet.
Eventually the medical profession and the law decided to let Frenċ continue with his practice, even without the need of a medical certificate.
He never accepted any money from his visitors.
All donations were passed over to Ta' Pinu Sanctuary.
They knew each other.
On one occasion, when Frenċ went on one of his trips to Malta, we have an account by Frenċ's sister, Filippina, of an encounter with Preca. Preca requested Frenċ to accompany him for some visits to sick people. Filippina recounts how Frenċ and Preca went on these visits walking along the streets hand in hand.
One of his last wishes...
was that a small hill in front of the church be adorned with statues denoting the fourteen stations of the cross. The wish came true and nowadays both the church and the stations are visited by thousands of pilgrims each year.
Frenċ died on 19 May 1967 in the same house that he was born in. People today still go to the village of Għarb and visit the house where Frenċ lived. His house has been converted into a historical and folklore Museum.
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Karmini Grima...
was born in the village of Għarb in Gozo, the sister island of Malta.
Her parents were poor labourers, who worked in the fields located on the nearby hills. Every day, after hearing Mass in a small chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Karmni would go to work in the fields.
On the 22 June 1883...
while, as usual, she was passing in front of the small chapel...
she heard a mysterious voice calling her: "Come, cóme today! For a whole year, you will not be able to return!" Karmni Grima, although terrified, obeyed and entered into the chapel. From a painting of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary located in the chapel, Karmni heard a voice saying: "Recite three Hail Marys in honour of the three days that I stayed within the tomb."
Karmini Grima got sick.
And could only return to the chapel after a year.
Grima kept this event a secret for two years.
When she finally told a friend, Francesco Portelli, his response was that he too had heard a woman's voice, at about the same time as Grima had. The voice had told him to honor the Wound of Christ, which Christ had received while carrying the cross. Shortly after this conversation, Grima's mother was miraculously healed - after invoking the 'Madonna ta' Pinu'.
Bishop Pietru Pace was informed about these events, and after speaking to Karmni and Francesco he concluded that the voice was of heavenly origins.
Within a short time...
the news spread throughout Gozo and Malta...
and the small and abandoned chapel soon became a Marian shrine. Many people started to organize pilgrimages in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and ask for temporal and spiritual favours. This prompted the ecclesiastical authorities to build a sanctuary, which would be able to accommodate the crowds that were now daily visiting the small chapel.
In 1920 the foundation stone of a modern basilica dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Ta' Pinu was laid. Today the basilica of Ta' Pinu remains a very popular destination for Marian pilgrimages.
For the last 15 years of her life, although bed-ridden, Grima was very much at peace with herself and bore her sufferings with patience, fully confident in the will of God.
Karmini Grima died on 25 February 1922.
The house where Karmni Grima lived still exists...
and it has now been turned into a museum.
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During Mass on February 11th...
commenting Pope Benedict XVI’s 2006 Message for Peace...
titled 'The Human Person, the Heart of Peace'...
Archbishop Bo in 2007 urged every child, adolescent, youth, adult, poor or rich - of whatever social condition, ethnic origin or religious belief - to help promote peace. Quoting the Pope he said: 'To build peace, it is important to guarantee every person the right to life and religious freedom.'
And he underlined: 'Here in our country we are free to assembly and worship God in public, but difficulties remain in some areas. We must continue to dialogue with the local authorities.'
Archbishop Bo greeted and thanked all the visitors...
who come to pray at the Shrine.
The faith of Mary in the will of God...
must be an example to renew a relationship of mutual respect and trust between government and citizens... so that after decades of war and darkness, Myanmar can see 'the light that is a source of hope.' These were the words of the Archbishop Bo in 2013, to tens of thousands of faithful who attended the final Mass of the Novena of Our Lady on February 9th at the Marian shrine of Nyaunglebin.
In his homily, he insisted on the concept of 'trust', starting from the example of the Virgin Mary who entrusted herself fully to God Abba Father, in whom we can always trust. 'Mary - said Msgr. Bo - is our example of faith in God.'
He then expanded by referring to the country, tracing the recent history since 1962. 'Our people - he said - lived for 50 years in darkness, with blindfolded and our mouths shut. But now the situation is changing. We are at the dawn of a new day, we are begining to see a light that is a source of hope.'
Archbishop Bo finally recalled the ongoing conflict between the Burmese army and the Kachin militia in Kachin State, northern Myanmar, on the border with China. Stressing that the country 'has not lived a year without war, since independence in 1948,' the prelate said he hoped that through 'discussions and negotiations, we can achieve a peaceful solution because we are all tired of fighting.
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More than 40,000 people...
including Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims...
attend each year the three-day national Marian celebrations...
at the Marian shrine in Nyaunglebin.
The shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes belongs to Yangon archdiocese. Since 2003, Archbishop Charles Maung Bo of Yangon presides at the celebration, which brings people from all over the country to pray at the shrine for the annual celebration keyed to the Feb.11th Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.
The feast has been celebrated in Myanmar since 1892...
when the late Bishop Paul Ambrose Bigandet decided to open a new mission at Nyaunglebin, and entrusted it to Father Michael Mignon, a member of the Paris Foreign Mission Society who built a wooden church, the first in Myanmar, and dedicated it to Our Lady of Lourdes.
The church was replaced by a new one in 1902. But was again shelled and partly destroyed during the Japanese occupation in World War II, which caused celebrations to be suspended. They resumed in 1948, and in 1957 the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on February 11th...
was made a national feast-day.
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de eenheid zien
doorheen het verschil
en wérken aan vrede
vele decennia lang
ook al haalt dat werk
zeer weinig camera's
en krijgt het onvoldoende
het respect dat het toekomt
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Bendigo, ten noorden van Melbourne...
waarheen zeer veel Karen-mensen vanuit Myanmar vluchten...
is een grote regionale stad in centraal Victoria, Australië. Er zijn ongeveer 80.000 inwoners en het is de op drie na grootste stad van Victoria - na Melbourne, Geelong en Ballarat.
Het gebied stond oorspronkelijk bekend als Bendigo's Creek, genoemd naar een werknemer van een plaatselijke boerderij met de bijnaam Bendigo, naar de Engelse bokser William Bendigo Thompson. In 1851 werd het gebied door de Engelsen bevolkt, in 1855 werd het een officiële gemeente en in 1871 kreeg het de status van stad. De stad kreeg aanvankelijk ambtshalve de naam Sandhurst, maar dat werd in 1891 alweer gewijzigd in de oude naam Bendigo.
Bendigo groeide in omvang na van de vondst van goud in het midden van de 19e eeuw.
De hoogtijdagen van de 'goldrush' hebben vele bezienswaardige victoriaanse gebouwen opgeleverd.
Eind jaren zestig van de 19e eeuw... werd de Bendigo Joss House Temple gebouwd, de oudste en nog bestaande Chinese tempel van het land. Er was een levendige Chinese gemeenschap in de stad door de ontdekking van goud. Vele Chinezen gingen naar de stad, die door hen Grote Goudberg [Dai Gum San / 大金山] werd genoemd, om te werken als goudzoeker.
Er was een Chinese buurt met allerlei voorzieningen voor Chinese migranten, zoals tempels en winkels. Tegenwoordig herinnert het Chinese park Yi Yuan en het Golden Dragon Museum aan de Bridge Street nog aan het vroegere bestaan van deze Chinatown.
In het museum bevindt zich de eerste tempel gewijd aan Guanyin [Kuan Yin]...
die dagelijks geopend is...
behalve op Kerstmis.
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vervolgd worden omwille van je geloof
betekent doorgaans ook, voor hen die het kúnnen althans...
uitwijken naar plekken waar er gelukkiger kansen zijn
voor jezelf en je familie...
zo vluchten Myanmarse Karen-mensen
bijvoorbeeld naar Australië
naar Bendigo
of all places
!
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in Myanmar
vroeger Birma genoemd
zijn niet alleen de islamitische Rohingya
een vervolgde minderheidsgroep...
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