Tag: #Buddhists
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Indonesia rejects Rohingya refugees, sends boat to Malaysia
At least 100 people, mostly women and children, on board a wooden vessel said to be taking on water denied refuge
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Pope to address Thai youth on final full day of Bangkok visit
Bangkok, Nov 22 (AFP/APP): Pope Francis will meet Friday with teachers and students in Thailand’s “small but vibrant” Catholic community on his final full day of a whirlwind Bangkok trip, closing the visit with a mass for the youth. The Pope is on his first trip to Buddhist-majority Thailand, where just over 0.5 percent of…
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15th anniversary of Tak Bai massacre in Southern Thailand
Tak Bai, Thailand, Oct 25 (AFP/APP): Muslims in the conflict-blistered Thai South on Friday marked with prayers the 15th anniversary of the deaths of scores of protesters who suffocated in army trucks, an incident that galvanised an insurgency and remains an emblem of state impunity. Known across the south as the “Tak Bai massacre”, the…