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Catholic bishop short-listed for EU prize

    JOHANNESBURG
    The European Parliament had short-listed Angola's peace campaigning Catholic Archbishop Zacarias Camuenho for its prestigious Sakharov human rights prize, Lusa reported on Thursday. Archbishop Camuenho of Lubango was placed second among three final candidates in a vote by the Strasbourg parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission on Tuesday. The European Parliament is expected to make its final decision in the middle of October. In proposing the bishop for the yearly award last month, Portuguese MPs described Camuenho as "one of the most prominent, active and persistent symbols" of the search for peace in Angola's 26-year civil war. The other candidates are a joint Palestinian-Israeli pair, Izzat Ghazzawi and Nurit Peled-Elhanan, and a former vice-president of Tunisia's human rights league, Sihem Ben Sedrine.

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