Masaka, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Masaka Catholic Diocese has started a fundraising drive for a major facelift of Our Lady of Sorrows Cathedral at Kitovu, Nyendo-Mukungwe Division, Masaka City. The Right Reverend Severus Jjumba, the Bishop of Masaka Diocese while launching the fundraising campaign on Friday said that they found …
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Awamiya, Saudi Arabia | AFP | Strip malls and palm-dotted boulevards stand in the once bullet-scarred old quarter of Awamiya, a Shiite-majority town on Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich eastern coast where the long-planned facelift fuelled deadly clashes. Until a year ago, Musawara neighbourhood resembled a war zone following skirmishes between militants …
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