Word: africa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Line. In the 22 years since it was born in the caves of Yenan, Hsinhua has grown into a formidable propaganda machine. Its radio-teletype network throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America gets regular transmissions from Peking. It has 31 bureaus in Red China; outside, in addition to the big Hong Kong office, it staffs bureaus in most Western European capitals, in Moscow, Damascus, New Delhi, Baghdad, Cairo, Havana-an estimated...
...court of appeal, which increased their fines. The district commissioner's court upheld the conviction. The two dissatisfied Bembas had finally appealed to the Northern Rhodesia High Court. Behind the seemingly minor and local case was a problem that might affect the religious future of large parts of Africa...
...flown in from London. Listening intently in the tiny courtroom was Catholic Bishop Francis Mazzieri of Ndola, and packed beside him were clergymen of many denominations. All the Christian missionaries in the territory knew what might be at stake. There are only about 9,000 white missionaries in Africa (pop. 233,775,000). This means that native converts must carry the main burden of spreading Christianity, and they cannot function effectively if native courts can punish them for giving religious advice to other natives...
...Future. British officials were not necessarily on the side of the missionaries; colonial administrators like to preserve native institutions in order to govern through them. But virtually all missionaries in Africa, Catholic or Protestant, agreed with London's Catholic Tablet that 1) Christianity should have the same freedom of action in Rhodesia that all religions have in England; 2) in religious matters, native missionaries should be as immune from tribal laws as white missionaries...
...most hopeful approach to the problem of international liquidity," and the International Monetary Fund has come out against it. Gold-short nations that need the most help would benefit least by the change; the major gains would be made by such big gold producers as Russia and South Africa...