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...town that has become a locus of the problems plaguing the Chinese administration of Xinjiang. While repression in neighboring Tibet has generated global headlines recently after weeks of violent protests, activist groups and rights advocates have long accused Beijing of carrying out a similar campaign of discrimination and human-rights abuse in Xinjiang. Whether or not that is true, what may be worrying to Beijing is that its policies could well engender the same sort of eruption of frustration and bitterness that has left scores dead in Tibet in recent weeks...
...Olympics Terrorist Threat? The problem, according to Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with New York City-based Human Rights Watch, is that the twin forces of repressive policies and rising Han immigration can create a fear in minority populations "that can lead people to do almost anything." It is precisely that kind of fear and bitterness that led to the ugly racial violence in Lhasa by Tibetans against Han Chinese that left more than a dozen Chinese immigrants dead and scores wounded...
...voted to keep its soldiers in Afghanistan until 2011--with the provisos that Canadian forces be reinforced by 1,000 troops from elsewhere and that Canadian forces concentrate less on combat and more on training Afghan security forces. When finally consulted in earnest, Canadians concluded that the financial and human costs of the mission were in fact worth bearing, at least for now. That's the good news. The bad news is that unlike Canada, few other NATO countries have begun to grapple with the urgency of 21st century threats or the sacrifices needed to deal with them. The avoidance...
...evidence of the urgent need for a renewed evangelization of culture." In light of secularism on one hand and competing religions on the other, Benedict urged his lieutenants to preach the Gospel "as an integral way of life, offering an attractive and true answer, intellectually and practically, to real human problems...
...continued: "The Church in America, at this point in her history, is faced with the challenge of recapturing the Catholic vision of reality and presenting it in an engaging and imaginative way, to a society which markets any number of recipes for human fulfillment." Said he: "I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth." Key to all this is prayer itself, which can even address the nagging vocations shortage in America by allowing...