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Word: alzamora (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they became in Guatemala. The presidential winner, Alberto Fujimori, ran on a ticket with Second Vice President Carlos Garcia, the Baptist president of the National Evangelical Council of Peru. Though Fujimori is a practicing Catholic and his opponent was an agnostic, anti-Catholic tracts prompted Lima Archbishop Augusto Vargas Alzamora to charge that Evangelicals "do not answer to the Christian tradition," and were waging an "insidious campaign." Peru's bishops organized a special pre-election procession of a venerated crucifix, usually reserved for times of calamity. The country's Catholics fear that Protestant inroads will jeopardize their church's favored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Latin America's Soul | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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