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friends of Peoples close to Nature

The ambitious DNA profiling "Genographic project" (See.. http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic) which seeks to retrace the path of human settlement on Earth has been encountering resistance among indigenous people. After a boycott-appeal by the US- American Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism http://www.ipcb.org, now some Maori and African First Nations have also announced concerns over the project .

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Christian fundamentalist groups and Pentecostal churches are spreading over Africa. They promise salvation by submission. They are the most grotesque side phenomenon of Africa´s social crises. 21st century christianity will be “bigger, younger, louder, softer, more shining- and more black”, as US-scientist Danny McCain, a minister himself, sees it.