Greece: Women protest in monk sanctuary
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A group of female protesters locked in a land dispute with the Greek Orthodox Church defied a 1,000-year-old ban and entered the all-male Mount Athos monastic sanctuary in northern Greece, a police official said Wednesday.
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ATHENS, Oct 17 (IPS) - "Conditions in the detention centre of Samos  are offensive to human dignity, and a violation of human rights;  it is a compromise of Greek status internationally."
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International agitators join mass protest
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Katharine Jefferts Schori, the first female presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, is used to hostility from the right wing of her denomination. Now, she faces a rebellion among her longtime allies on the left.
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Marches started by monks turn into large-scale show of defiance against country's military rule.
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Protestors gesture while attending an anti-government rally in front of the Hungarian parliament in Budapest, September 24.Comment
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 22 -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, increasing pressure on the military government by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Burma's long struggle for democracy.
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Thousands of secular Turks rallied on Saturday against a plan by the government to allow women students to wear the Muslim headscarf at university, a move they say will usher in a stricter form of Islam in Turkey.
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Nepali political activists staged a protest for a second straight day on Friday, demanding King Gyanendra restore democracy and civil rights in the troubled Himalayan kingdom.
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Several hundred people rallied Wednesday to demand an end to what they said was the persecution of Christians in the Middle East that has forced thousands to flee the region.
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Hundreds of animal rights activists took part in a &quot;Running of the Nudes&quot; Thursday to protest the traditional running of the bulls ceremony in the Spanish town of Pamplona.
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Hundreds of demonstrators marched in Turkey&#39;s capital Tuesday to protest proposed legislation to make adultery a crime. A crowd of about 500, mostly women, marched from Ankara&#39;s central square to parliament
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Buddhist monks joined a protest by members of pro-government Eelam People&#39;s Democratic Party (EPDP) outside the Norwegian embassy against continued killings by Tamil Tiger rebels.
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ASIA/INDIA - Proteste per le discriminazioni pubbliche contro i dalit cristiani e musulmani New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - Organizzazioni cristiane e musulmane hanno levato la loro voce e la loro protesta per le vie della capitale Delhi contro un decisione della Commissione Nazionale per i fuoricasta (ÂCommission for Scheduled Castes/TribesÂ)....
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More than 20,000 Muslims in Istanbul on Sunday held the biggest protest so far against Pope Benedict's controversial visit to Turkey this week.
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The protests by Buddhist monks are part of a decades-long battle for democracy
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Around 1,000 Buddhist monks, flanked by thousands of onlookers, march in protest against the country's military regime.