diaspora

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Event managers feel that the key to boost the confidence of the diaspora is the formation of a separate Ministry for the welfare of an estimated 25 million overseas Indians, including those who still hold Indian passports (NRIs) and those who don't (People of Indian Origin).

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  1. The dispersion of the Jews; among the Hellenistic Jews and in the New Testament, the whole body of Jews living scattered among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity: also used by the Jewish Christians of the apostolic age for their fellow Christians outside of Palestine (rendered “the strangers” in the authorized version of 1 Pet. i. 1, and “the Dispersion” in the revised version). The development of Judaism in the diaspora differed in important points from that in Palestine. Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 760.

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  • Event managers feel that the key to boost the confidence of the diaspora is the formation of a separate Ministry for the welfare of an estimated 25 million overseas Indians, including those who still hold Indian passports (NRIs) and those who don't (People of Indian Origin). —  The Hindu - Front Page
  • An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • How interesting that the diaspora are a 100\% more fanatical than the actual inhabitants of the mother land. —  SofiaEcho RSS feed
  • "Ugandans in the diaspora are actively investing back home," said Prof Maggie Kigozi, executive director of UIA. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • Many countries in the developing world have long recognised that their citizens in the diaspora are the largest non-tangible, although sometimes undocumented export. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
 

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  1. from Greek διασπορά, a scattering, dispersion, collectively, in the Septuagint and New Testament, the dispersed Jews, from διασπείρειν, scatter, sow abroad, from διά, throughout, + σπείρειν, scatter, sow.
 

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