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From my 21 years mission experience I want to say what I learned most:
It is to respect and love other fellow-human-beings, because everyone is a child of God. Where I worked and lived, people always looked different from me, they had different colours; they spoke and behaved totally differently from were I came from, Germany. I became colour blind and open to other cultures, religions and traditions.
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Germany was in debris and ashes and Europe was in ruins, due to Hitler’s aggression against the neighbouring countries. After the un-wanted war, my father and my mother and other Germans hungry, dead looking figures wandered about the streets in their everlasting search for food and shelter. All Germans suffered enormously after the WW II. How my parents and other people in Germany must have felt after this senseless war?
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/ Gay Couples Celebrate California Court Ruling
Gay and lesbian couples in San Francisco rejoiced Thursday over a California Supreme Court decision affirming their right to marry even as political leaders on both sides of the issue girded for an extended fight in the courts and at the ballot box. “It’s just amazing to feel like I am a full citizen — I am not a second-class citizen,” said Christmas Laubrile, a nurse, who was with her partner, Alice Heimsoth. 15. 5. 2008
The
Australian / ASEAN 'shamed by Burma aid crisis'ASEAN has again been shamed by its failure to bring member state Burma into line, this time over demands it open its doors to a full-scale cyclone relief effort, critics said today.The aid crisis, which is imperilling the lives of 1.5 million desperate survivors of the disaster, makes a mockery of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' efforts to exert more influence on members, they said. 12. 5. 2008
Reuters
/ "Unimaginable tragedy" if Myanmar delays aidDesperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis poured out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta on Sunday in search of food, water and medicine but aid workers said thousands of them would die if emergency supplies do not get through soon.Buddhist temples and schools in towns on the outskirts of the storm's trail of destruction are now makeshift refugee centers for women, children and the elderly. 11. 5. 2008
CNN
/ Bush to Myanmar: 'Let us help'President Bush joined a chorus of international leaders urging Myanmar's reclusive military government to allow the flow of aid after a disastrous weekend cyclone killed tens of thousands of people."Let the United States come and help you," Bush exhorted the junta on Tuesday.The death toll has risen to more than 22,000, Myanmar state radio and opposition sources said Tuesday. 6. 5. 2008
Dalai
Lama's Envoys to Hold Talks Sunday with chinese OfficialsRepresentatives of the Dalai Lama are to meet with Chinese officials this weekend for the first talks on Tibet since violent unrest broke out in March. But, as Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing, the talks are not expected to yield any breakthroughs.Two envoys of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader were scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong Saturday ahead of informal talks with Chinese officials in neighboring Shenzhen. 4. 5. 2008
BBC
/ UN meeting to address food crisis
Key United Nations development agencies are meeting in Switzerland to try to develop solutions to ease the escalating global food crisis. Led by secretary general Ban Ki-Moon, officials want to mitigate the impact of the steep rise in staple food prices and prevent food shortages worsening.
The World Food Programme (WFP) says an extra 100 million people cannot afford enough food because of higher prices. 28. 4. 2008
NYT
/ Chinese Clash With Protesters at Seoul Torch RallyThousands of young Chinese assembled to defend their country’s troubled Olympic torch relay pushed through police lines on Sunday, some of them hurling rocks, bottled water and plastic and steel pipes at protesters demanding better treatment for North Korean refugees in China. Two North Korean defectors living in South Korea poured paint thinner on and tried to set themselves on fire in an attempt to protest themselves. 27. 4. 2008
VOA
/ Indicating N. Korean Nuclear Cooperation With SyriaState Department officials say the intelligence briefings were requested by congressional leaders, and acknowledge they come at a sensitive point in negotiations aimed at getting Pyongyang to give up its nuclear program. News reports say legislators are being shown a video obtained by Israel and said to show North Koreans helping build a nuclear reactor in northern Syria. 24. April 2008
TWT
/ Darfur casualty estimate rises to 300,000The senior U.N. humanitarian official yesterday raised by half the estimated casualties in Darfur, saying that as many as 300,000 had been killed by warfare, disease and hunger.John Holmes, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the Security Council that the situation had worsened in the past four years, as the numbers of casualties and the displaced rose and as assaults on aid workers increased. 23. April 2008
MET
/ Headlines from the Arab pressAl-Quds (East Jerusalem): Deal between Hamas and Carter: Gaza calm in return for ending blockade, opening crossings and exchanging prisoners – Informed sources said Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal presented a response to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's proposals regarding major issues concerning calm in Gaza, exchanging prisoners with Israel and the movement's vision. 21. April 2008
BBC
/ Pope to offer Ground Zero prayer
Pope Benedict XVI is set to wrap up his six-day trip to the United States with a visit to Ground Zero and a baseball stadium in New York on Sunday. The Pope will tour the site of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the twin towers with survivors and relatives of the 2,749 people who died there.
20. April 2008
THT
/ N.KOREAN REFUGEES: Where has all the courage gone?Few countries today can claim as staggering a list of human rights violations as North Korea.For starters, there's a resurgent famine driven by gross government mismanagement that threatens millions of lives, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners languish in concentration camps, and an estimated half-million refugees remain in hiding from forced repatriation that often results in torture and execution. 17. April 2008
PopeBe
respectful as you build a more humane and free societyAs Pope Benedict XVI met with President Bush today, he encouraged the American people to "pursue reasoned, responsible and respectful dialogue in the effort to build a more humane and free society."The Pope, who turned 81 today, earned a warm embrace from the nation this morning, receiving two renditions of "Happy Birthday" from a jubilant and inspired crowd of about 13,500 well-wishers. 16. April 2008
BBC
/ Gandhi daughter visits assassin
Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, says she has met a woman serving a jail term for her father's assassination. Ms Gandhi said she met Nalini Sriharan last month in a prison in Vellore in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a suicide bomb in May 1991 while he addressed an election rally. 15. April 2008
Yahoo
News / Nepal's Maoists extend strong election leadNepal's Maoists on Sunday extended a stunning early lead in historic polls on the country's political future, election officials said as vote counting continued.The trend has put the former rebels on track to become the single biggest bloc in a body that will rewrite Nepal's constitution, and positioned to boot out the impoverished country's unpopular King Gyanendra and abolish the monarchy. 13. April 2008
CNN
/ Olympic torch protests begin in San Francisco
Thousands of demonstrators descended on San Francisco on Wednesday, the day of the Olympic Torch run, with one side waving Tibetan flags to protest the Beijing Olympics and the other brandishing Chinese flags in support.The city has been gearing up for the protests, trying to head off the kind of chaos that greeted the Olympic torch relay in Paris and London.
9. April 2008
Sky
News / Paris Olympic Torch Relay Is Cut ShortThe Olympic torch relay in Paris has been cut short after chaotic protests by anti-China demonstrators.The flame had already been extinguished four times by security forces after repeated clashes with pro-Tibet and human rights campaigners.The demonstrations also saw the city's mayor cancel a ceremony to mark the torch's passing.
7. April 2008
CNN
/ Olympic: Angry protests as torch reaches LondonIn a statement, the two men, Martin Wyness and Ashley Darby, said the relay was a propaganda campaign to cover China's "appalling human rights record," PA reported."Our protest is not directed at the Chinese people whatsoever but instead at the brutal Chinese regime that rules them," they said.
6. April 2008
Martin
Luther King Jr. deserves to be honored, then followedIt was in this environment that Dr. King lived, preached and worked. It is easy to bask in his glow four decades after his death. It took incredible bravery at the time to walk with him in support of his cause. And it wasn't only his cause. It was an American cause. He challenged this country to live up to its ideals and what he knew was its better nature.
5. April 2008
MET
/ Divided Cyprus opens key Nicosia crossingA major crossing point at the heart of the divided capital city of Nicosia was opened on Thursday in great fanfare underscoring renewed optimism and drive to reunify the island after decades of division.The key thoroughfare of Ledra Street in the commercial hub of the Venetian-walled old city was sealed after deadly intercommunal violence erupted in 1963.
5. April 2008
TWT
/ Commentary / FORUM: Leave China's Olympics aloneI can't stand China.It is a despicable dictatorship in every regard and it is certainly our rival, if not our enemy. I have cursed it all of my adult life, and am not about to stop.But we need to be clear about the Olympics. The Olympics are not about politics, they are not about making a point, they are not about thumbing your nose at a country you do not like.
3. April 2008
VOA
/ China Warns of Tibetan Suicide AttacksChina's Public Security Ministry gave reporters an update on the official investigation into riots in Lhasa in mid-March. The Chinese government says 18 innocent people and one policeman died. Tibetans say the numbers are much higher, and include Tibetans killed by Chinese security forces.
1. April 2008
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