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VATICAN CITY – Benedict XVI will call for improved legislation on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees in January, the Vatican announced Nov. 21.
In the prepared text, issued well in advance of the date, January 14, so that Roman Catholic parishes around the world can study it, the pope call" the integration of immigrants in their new home countries.

SYDNEY - Prime Minister John Howard says migrants to Australia must learn English, embrace equal rights for women and adopt unspecified Australian values that will integrate them into society.

Howard, who has tried to cultivate an image as a cricket-loving everyman, rejected suggestions he was offending some people by stating his view that migrants from other cultures must fit in with Australian society.

MANILA - All sound bites and no real action. This was the reaction of some relatives of overseas Filipino workers stranded in war-torn Lebanon towards the government's stream of evacuation orders and appeals to the combatants to spare the Filipinos with no concrete action being taken to rescue them.