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 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 that 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 but why the numbers increasing go 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 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 hot in all these 3 countries so far quickly. well in mozambique he was talking a lot about peace and how important the peace agreement is but in the same time parts of the armed faction of the former rebel group are now more we have play in the war drums so it doesn't look like a long term impact they have there was also some criticism about the timing of his visit in more riches and in mozambique because in both countries elections will be taking place soon and some oppositions politicians criticize that they might use the visit of the pope for their advantage will eventually have. many thanks for

your time our correspondent in more gracious. to south africa now where racial tensions have been running high in recent months riots a nuisance 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 on. the strap that speech by veteran politician. with the lazy call for calm not dressed in well intentions to filter much of the crowd who walked out. changed or chanted far in his back to where they came. to dig deep into the garden joins us from the human sciences research 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 as part of the fabric of society since the formation of the modern african state in 1904 it seems linked to a series of myths. deep rooted in many local communities regarding the negative impact on international migration also that in 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 busy. it's a national modern seem to be a ready scapegoat for many of the problems that place that african society but not not not to finish they've been not to cut you but it's this it's across countries on the continent about for south africa it always seems like 2nd nature to resort

to violence to handle the matzah why is that i think we have to look very carefully at public attitudes towards violence in south africa after human science 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 it's if you have a strong prejudice and believe that you as a private individual have the rights to gauge public violence this is a recipe for disaster ok now what could be the rights of those for the government to taco xenophobia. deed so african 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 education media engagements besser war for student improved immigration management and international migrant integration progress 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 research council in south africa many thanks for your time. well that's it for now from d.w. news africa you can catch all ostorius on our website facebook page we leave you now with. his 3 nation trip to south africa made me an emotional visit francis once

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hello i'm a very well welcome to news from the world of arts and culture we'll be going over to the toronto film festival in just a minute but also coming up. in our series 100 german must reads the cold in times of fading light and intricate saga about family life in the former east germany. and we'll have a look at the beethoven fest in the great composers hometown of ball which got underway. but we begin in canada a toronto international film festival because of the time of year it's held it is rather like venice before it considered a bit of a launch pad for the oscars so apart from all the usual independent films there's a few hollywood blockbusters getting their premieres in toronto as well i'll be

talking to scott rocks in just a minute but 1st a bit mall if. it started quite small but over the years to run 2 has become one of the most important film industry hops this year it presents for $333.00 films from $84.00 countries it's not an a festival so there's no international competition but that doesn't mean no major premieres and b. star was. good last year the green book was screened here it won the toronto audience prize and went on to pick up the best picture oscar. because it takes. this year tom hanks is one of the big names dropping in he stars in a movie about us t.v. legend fred rogers. the toronto international film festival runs until sunday. and joining me now direct from

toronto is scott iraq fresh from seeing the movie jo-jo rabbit now this is a black comedy about a young boy in the hitler youth who has an imaginary friend in the fall of. first let's see scott just let's see a quick short clip. joe joe my old friend i had health problems as a man they call me a skin and rabbit people used to say a lot of nasty things about me. hi scott now scott that's sounds quite surreal you've seen it all. yeah actually not a bad word for this this is a quite unusual film has a weird pitch slide it is a story about

a young german boy who idolizes the nazis set close to the end of the 2nd world war and then he has this imaginary fred who is a version of adult sort of a boyhood childish version of a goofy adult hitler and then the boy himself comes into conflict because he discovers that his mother is actually hiding a jewish girl in their house at the time and so he has to make this issue of whether to turn the girl in and be loyal to his doxie beliefs or or do the right thing a very interesting movie it could have really gone horribly wrong i have to say the premise is so problematic but the director here the new zealand director talking to what. he he also plays hitler actually in the clip that we just saw he gets the balance just right he's an interesting guy both bowery and jewish heritage and he gets the balance between the humor and the whore exactly right this film remind me

a lot of life is beautiful another story that found comedy in the horrors of the 2nd world war and i think it's really an amazing. feat that what he as a man has managed here and could be maybe the final for the 1st film to actually get even germans to laugh at him ok now another black hole but the old how do. i believe this is a whodunit with a difference. yeah this is an interest in film of it's from ryan johnson whose last movie was the last of the last star wars movie so i wasn't really knowing what to expect from him when he did just a whodunit the film is set up like sort of one of those classic i think christie adaptations you know star studded whodunit here you've got daniel craig jamie lee curtis michael shannon all these these these amazing actors packed into this room in one of the beds a bed and then a guy with a foreign name and

a weird accent comes as a tactic to try and solve this case played by daniel craig but usually whodunits for me don't work because they've been done to death you know we've seen hundreds of versions on film and on t.v. but what ron johnson does with this is he sort of plays with the genre he has a lot of fun with it and he almost makes it almost a satire but in the end it still works as a proper style whodunit watching this film had the feeling like this is the kind of movie that if agatha christie got stoned and wrote a new mystery this is what might come out it's a lot of fun and if you're a fan of the old school at the christie's you have a lot of fun with this scope go a lot of time but just tell me there's also a lot of talk about one particular bio page a beautiful day in the neighborhood starring tom hanks what did you make about what . yeah this is quite interesting a female director here there's a lot of people directors in this year this is a biopic but with a difference it's stars the nicest man in hollywood tom hanks playing the nicest

man in t.v. fred rogers or mr rogers the late children's t.v. presenter and what's interesting about this it's not really the story of fred rogers but it's the story of the life of someone he influenced namely a cynical journalist who tried to find the dark secrets about fred rogers but spoiler all he found was more wonderfulness this film is like a big warm hug and maybe just the right thing for these sort of talks at times skull always a mine of information great to chill. scott roxboro in toronto thank you. now in our continuing series 100 german must read featuring great books from german authors that being translated into english we're looking at a book that sheds some light on how family life was in the former communist east germany in times of fading light or you can rule the office a view of life on the wrong side of the.

another family gathering from how the mom can smash the sun doesn't even show up on the 90 year old birthday boy the grandpa probably knows of the happening. everyone in or going to his novel in times of fading light knows the old man's and dementia but it's probably for the best otherwise he'd realize the country he's helped build is about to end just like his life it's october 1909 a few weeks before the east german regime collapses. but you can no longer was 57 when he made his debut with this novel tells the history of east germany through the eyes of a family his own family. the author's alter ego alexandre hates growing up in a country whose grandfather believes. he would never hear the rolling stones

live would never see woodstock never even see west berlin with its new demos and student riots it's free love because between the small narrow world where he would have to spend his life and the other big wide world where real true life was lived there was a border and it was the one that he likes on their own it's our turn to have to guard. in times of fading light is about the failure of a whole country written without accusations or justifications read it if you want to understand what made people build communist east germany and why their dream was doomed to fail. the western german city of ball was looks big beethoven. where he spent 4 months of years of his life as a beethoven fast and in a featuring many of his works of course but then self was

a great innovator so i'm sure he would have approved of the fire festival features contemporary music and lots of dance as well it got underway at the weekend with classic. music in the am the beethoven fest and one kicked off with one of its annual favorites a live screening of the opening concert out of the market square and on. it features the beatles in symphony number 6 also known as the pastoral symphony conducted by you cup a kind of sad story and the phenomenon he has every. right let's say he's sitting outside experiencing this with other people i really like the conductor it's exciting to watch him does not punish the you don't like it when you listen to this it's a force of nature fantastic. one last rehearsal at dawn's world congress center playing the pastoral symphony and be told his hometown is especially experience for the 94

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