Word: catholicization
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Despite the presence of United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor, menace and misery lurk just across the border. East Timorese refugees?mainly former militiamen and Indonesian soldiers and their families?yearn to return from their squalid camps in West Timor. But Indonesian authorities are already unable to cope with the...
A sign inside the front door of Holy Cross Primary School, in north Belfast, reads: "If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe." Before they could get inside to read that sign last week, the pupils of...
But even he then reverted to what the Northern Irish call "what aboutery" - joining other politicians in circular arguments blaming the current outrage on some past transgression by the other side. The immediate goad here was said to be a summer full of attacks on local homes with stones and...
The pattern of residential segregation is certainly present around Holy Cross. Its pupils come from Ardoyne, a Catholic area where the terraced houses that line its long streets are filled by a young and growing population. They would like to expand into the Protestant areas nearby, including Glenbryn, where the...
The Protestants of Glenbryn claim that Catholics, backed by the Irish Republican Army, are manufacturing the scenes at Holy Cross by insisting upon taking their children to school on a Protestant street, rather than a longer but neutral back way. They see it all as part of a campaign to...