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Buddhist Protest in Vietnam

Persecuted Buddhist dissidents plan mass suicide

Persecuted Buddhist dissidents plan mass suicide. Forty-nine monks, nuns and supporters of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam have pledged to set themselves alight after the government refused to recognise their church.

Also on the programme, the importance of religion in Northern Ireland and the influence of the German church in politics.

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28 minutes