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    Macau (redirect from Macao)
    Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. With a population of about 710,000 people and a land area of 32.9 km2...
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    Year Book (2011): Chapter 18 – Religion and Custom. Zheng, VWT; Wan, PS. Religious beliefs and life experiences of Macao's residents 澳門居民的宗教信仰與生活經驗. On:...
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  • Lusophone music types popular in Macao are samba, bossa nova, and kizomba. In 2005, the Hush!! Full Band Festival got established, a government-sponsored modern...
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  • giving special aromas and tastes. Popular dishes include galinha à Portuguesa, galinha à Africana (African chicken), bacalhau (traditional Portuguese salt...
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    Article 6 Principle of equality 1. All residents of the Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao SAR) shall have equal opportunities for employment based...
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    (1938) The Black Diamond (1941) The Murderer is Afraid at Night (1942) Macao, l'enfer du jeu [fr] (1939/1942) Fever (1942) Colonel Pontcarral (1942)...
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    Évariste Régis Huc (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    mission work and Chinese at its seminary on Macao under J.G. Perboyre (later martyred and canonized as a saint) for eighteen months. When his Chinese...
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    Mazu (redirect from A-Ma)
    Mazu or Matsu is a Chinese sea goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. She is also known by several other names and...
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    Chams (section Religion)
    Malacca to Macao trade run by the Portuguese docked at Brunei due to good relations between the Portuguese and Brunei after the Chinese permitted Macao to be...
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  • As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit...
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    directed or co-directed Vendetta (1950), The Racket (1951), and Macao (1952). He starred as a bullfighter in The Brave Bulls (1951) for Robert Rossen at Columbia...
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    waters. The British landed troops in Macao despite a Chinese and Portuguese agreement to bar foreign forces from Macao, and then in the War of 1812 attacked...
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    Argentina (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    is the largest religion in Argentina. The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. Although it enforces neither an official nor a state faith, it...
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    Armenia (section Religion)
    became the first state in the world to adopt Christianity as its official religion. Armenia still recognises the Armenian Apostolic Church, the world's oldest...
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    Maldives (section Religion)
    citizens. The requirement to adhere to a particular religion and prohibition of public worship following other religions is contrary to Article 18 of the Universal...
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    "Public Holidays in 2019 Decree Law No. 60/2000 on Public Holidays". Macao SARG Portal. Macao SAR of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 24 January 2019...
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    and Macao). Privatization policies (involving government enterprises and public services) and multinational corporations are often considered a visible...
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    Francis Xavier (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    to Macao walking. He cures a mute or unable to speak and paralytic man in Amanguchi. He cures a deaf Japanese person. He prays in the ship during a storm...
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    Brussels (section Religions)
    Germany Breda, Netherlands Casablanca, Morocco Kinshasa, Congo Kyiv, Ukraine Macao, China Madrid, Spain Ljubljana, Slovenia Prague, Czech Republic Washington...
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    Guangzhou (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from EB9)
    for most of a year, ultimately executed 23 by lingchi. With the help of local pirates, the "Folangji" then carried out smuggling at Macao, Lampacau, and...
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  • In Portugal, a public holiday (Portuguese: feriado) is a calendar date, legally recognised and defined in the Labour Code as well as the Concordat of...
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    Emigração". observatorioemigracao.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 April 2023. Macao Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments. Retrieved...
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    Aesop's Fables (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Zuoren", Journal of Macao Polytechnic Institute, 2009 available online Archived 8 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Sisir Kumar Das, A History of Indian...
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    both Muslim and Confucian missionaries are highly active. Traditional religions are often animist. Some also tend to have elements of veneration of the...
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    Anthony of Padua (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    glass case together with a statue of the saint, at the entrance to the church. St. Anthony of Padua in St. Joseph's Church, Macao National Shrine of St....
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    Cai Gao (redirect from Tsae A-Ko)
    pinyin. Smith also gives the Cantonese form as Choi A-ko. Cai Gao's father was a Cantonese merchant at Macao whose legal wife had borne him no children; Gao's...
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    Liang Fa (redirect from Liang A-Fa)
    later, the city's police came for him and his companions. Liang escaped to Macao, but an assistant in Guangzhou and several family members in Sanzhou were...
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  • State, 2008 Country Report on Human Rights: China (includes Hong Kong and Macao) Archived 9 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Oct 2008. Quote: "Some foreign...
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    Matteo Ricci (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    Google Books A discourse of the Kingdome of China, taken out of Ricius and Trigautius, containing the countrey, people, government, religion, rites, sects...
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    pela minha honra por amar e servir fielmente à minha religião e à minha terra, auxiliar o próximo, obedecer à Lei do Escoteiro. English translation: On my...
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