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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  September 9, 2019 8:45pm-9:01pm CEST

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i like them. and to say what we have the schip program you know you know the government there is supposed to i shall shake you supposed to bring a certain balance but still you know the people in. the movie shows. very poor they do not even have the a place to sleep and fortunately. there is not even the sad you know i think it's some. people get. so angry and overall pride reactions that but across africa there seems to be an increase in support of the catholic church why is that. oh absolutely and while in europe the population is shrinking it is growing in most parts of the continent and so is the numbers of catholics and of christians in
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general is projected or estimated that by 206040 percent of the christians in the world will be living in africa and well i overheard somebody saying here today earlier that's well back in the days it was europe sending priests to africa nowadays it's the other way around it is of course something that the pope has also noticed and he has seen how important africa is he definitely gave the continent much more attention than some pope's before and he also gave some of his bishops more power so they will also be the ones to to be electing the his successor in the future where the numbers increase in door across africa. well the numbers are going up with the population growth and you know how important religion is on this continent for most people it is extremely important and we've seen it with pentecostal coast just we see it with if i can get a list as well the catholic church is has is seeing the same trends and it is even
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the sort of competition you can see at the moment between pentecostal churches for example and the catholic church is waking up to that and seeing the importance of the continent ok so what impact has the pope's visit in all these 3 countries so far pretty. well in mozambique he was talking a lot about peace and how important the peace agreement is but in the same time the parts of the armed faction of the former rebel group are now more we have playing the war drums so it doesn't look like a long term impact they have there was also some criticism about the timing off his visit in more riches and in mozambique because in both countries elections will be taking place soon and some opposition politician criticized that they might use the visit of the pope for their advantage we're live in here. many thanks for your time our correspondent at the un in more gracious. to south africa now where racial tensions have been running high in recent months
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riots and looting as against foreign nationals have been ramping up across the country at least 10 people have been killed in the violence over the last week yesterday and. the speech by veteran politician. with the lazy called for calm you know i dressed well intentions filter much of the crowd who walked out. or chanted for in his school back to where they came from. to dig deep into the golden joins us from the human science museums council in south africa stephen thanks for your time now what is the root cause of xenophobia in south africa. and immigrant sentiment in south africa's a very complicated issue it is not an issue that is arose in recently part of the fabric of society since the formation of the african
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states in 1994. it seems linked to a series of myths. deep rooted in many local communities regarding the negative impact in international migration on south african society. international markets are accused of stealing jobs committing crime out of practicing prostitution and engaging in the legal like caltex trade these myths are without foundation. it's a national model and seems to be a ready scapegoat for many of the problems that plagues that african society but not not not finish that not to cut you but it's this it's wissen across countries on the continent about for south africa it always seems like 2nd nature out to resort to violence to handle the mob why is that. i think we have to look very carefully at public attitudes towards violence in south africa
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at the human sciences research council we've been looking at public attitudes towards vigilanteism people's willingness to take the law into their own hands and we find significant public support for the idea that private citizens should take it into their own hands to punish people they perceive as wrong to is if you have a strong prejudice and believe that you as a private individual have the rights to gauging public violence this is a recipe for disaster ok not what could be the right approach for the government to tackle xenophobia. the selector being government currently has adopted the national action plan to combat racism racial discrimination xenophobia and related and intolerance they made this pledge in march 2019 this yet they haven't acted as series of stated. actions ranging from civic
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education media engagements vessel war foresman to improved immigration management and international migrant integration programs much of this is still at the early stages and it is still unclear how committed the state will be to its international action plan on the issue. stephen gordon phone the human science we says concert in south africa many thanks for your time. well. you can catch all last story is from our web site facebook page we leave you now with a whole. nation trip to south africa an emotional visit us with francis once again . for the. gauge. for the next time.
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