Religion
Video: Rebiya Kadeer – China’s state enemy No. 1
In January 2010, the human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer made an official visit to Bolzano, following an invitation from the Society for Threatened Peoples and the EURAC. In her capacity as president of the World Congress on Uygur people, Kadeer used the visit to highlight the precarious situation o...
- Date | 24.03.10
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Video: The Karaites – A Small Minority in Lithuania
Trakai, near Vilnius in Lithuania, has been the home of a small community of Turkic Karaites for centuries. In contrast to the Karaites in Israel, the Lithuanian Karaites don’t view themselves as Jews, but as an independent religious community, and that is also how they are seen by the Jewish commun...
- Date | 26.10.09
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Video: Never Without A Turban – The Sikhs Of Novellara
The Sikhs have their origins in the border areas between India and Pakistan. For the average European they are likely to represent the „typical Indian“: long beard, dark eyes and the traditional colourful turban. In Novellara, a small provincial town in Emilia Romagna, they built their largest templ...
- Date | 28.05.09
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Video: Arbëreshë - An Albanian Minority in Southern Italy
During the Easter celebrations in 2009, minet met some members of the Arbëresh community in Calabria. In many villages throughout southern Italy and Sicily, this long-established Albanian minority, which counts about 100 000 speakers, was able to preserve its Albanian traditions and its Byzantine li...
- Date | 27.04.09
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Video: The Copts in Tyrol – A Visit to Innsbruck
More than 12 million believers around the world today belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church, a church that was founded in Egypt by St. Mark the apostle as early as the first century AD. Around 6000 Coptic Orthodox Christians live in Austria – 3000 alone in Vienna, the rest is divided among the munici...
- Date | 25.03.09
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Video: The Dard People – A Minority in the Northwest of India
The Ladakh region is known for its outstanding beauty, for its mountains, its Tibetan-Buddhist culture. The region is also referred to as „Little Tibet“ and it is the home of the Dard people, an Indo-European minority. Their facial features, with their slender noses, Caucasian-looking eyes and relat...
- Date | 26.11.08
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Video: Minority Anthems – A Music Archive in Vienna
A unique collection of minority anthems can be found at the University of Performing Arts and Music in Vienna, at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethno-Musicology. minet has traced some of the minority anthems in their collection. minet broadcast: 28.05.2009 Also featured in this programm...
- Date | 28.05.08
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Video: The U’wa Tribe in Northeast Colombia on the border to Venezuela
The U’wa tribe in Colombia has been fighting for years to be noticed by the international community. The small community, which counts around 5000 people, appears powerless and insignificant when faced with the greedy demands of large oil companies. The images in this minet report have been filmed b...
- Date | 13.10.06
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