The Week Junior - USA (2021-11-19)

6 The Week Junior • November 19, 2021

Around the world

Mexico
Day of the Dead parades return
On November 1 and 2, people across Mexico celebrated
the Day of the Dead. Called Día de los Muertos in
Spanish, Day of the Dead is a celebration of life and
death. People remember friends and family who have
died and leave out food they once enjoyed as a
welcoming gesture to the spirits of the deceased.
Parades were canceled last year due to the pandemic.

Sudan

Teachers arrested in protests

Nearly 100 teachers have been arrested in Sudan after

they went on strike to protest the army’s seizure of power

in the country in October. Since then, civilians have been

demonstrating for democracy (government in which the

people choose leaders). Teachers and protesters say police

used tear gas and violence against them, leaving many injured.

Rott erdam, Netherlands

A world fi rst for new museum

A new museum, the Depot Boijmans Van

Beuningen, became the fi rst museum in the world

to display all of its art when it opened on November

6. (Most museums can display only a small number
   of their items. ) The towering museum, which is
   shaped like a massive bowl and features mirrors on
   the outside, has more than 150,000 works of art.

Vatican City

Nun gets historic appointment

Pope Francis named Sister Raff aella Petrini as the Secretary

General of the Governatorate of the State of Vatican City, the

second highest-ranking position in the Vatican City government.

Petrini, a 52-year-old Italian nun, is the fi rst woman named to the

position and the highest-ranking woman in the Vatican’s history.

She will oversee more than 2,000 employees and government

departments, such as the police force and post o ce.

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Addis Ababa,

Ethiopia

Calls to end fi ghting

Ethiopia marked a year of confl ict

during which thousands of people

died and millions lost their homes.

Fighting began after the Ethiopian

government attacked the Tigray

People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the

party that ruled the northern Tigray

region. The TPLF fought back, and the

fi ghting spread. The United Nations

Security Council (responsible for

maintaining international peace and

security ) called for the fi ghting to end.

Pope Francis

greets Sister

Ra aella Petrini.

A Day of the

Dead parade in

Mexico City

A government supporter

waves Ethiopia’s fl ag.

Art on display

at the Depot