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• Jammu-Srinagar Diocese joins Islamic groups in making Kashmir alcohol free

  They also want govt to initiate proper awareness programs and strictly curb bootlegging

• China's Uyghur crackdown targets police, families

  Relatives of security personnel considered off limits in previous purges

• Procession calls for end to drug-war killings in Philippines

  Archbishop Socrates Villegas called on members of police and military to return to the Lord and obey God rather than evil men

• Myanmar's Hindu Rakhine repatriation plan gets mixed reception

  Hindus in Myanmar say they want to be resettled separately from ethnic Muslim Rohingya but plan slammed as discriminatory

• Catholics called on to stop extremists hijacking polls

  Hardliners likely to use same tactics that toppled Jakarta governor, Indonesian bishops told