Word: animist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there has been vicious warfare on and off since Sudan's independence in 1956. Africa's largest country is really two: an Islamic, Arabized north and a Christian, animist and African south. The government in Khartoum is headed by Lieut. General Omar Hassan al-Bashir, but the real power is Hassan al-Turabi, a radical scholar who leads the National Islamic Front and is intent on enforcing Muslim law on the land. On the battlefield, the shifting coalition led by John Garang's SPLA has been successful recently, opening a new front in the northeast. Officially the rebels are fighting...
...scholar Christmas Humphreys once wrote, "of the noblest Buddhist principles and debased sorcery." Its core, as with all Buddhism, is a belief in suffering and emptiness, and the need for compassion in the face of those. But unlike the stripped-down austerities of Zen, say, Tibetan Buddhism swarms with animist spirits, vivid symbolic depictions of copulating bodies, and Tantric practices of magic and sexuality that, taken out of context or practiced without the right training, are inflammable...
This Carter achievement seemed particularly startling. For a dozen years, the Muslim Sudanese government in the north and the south's black Christian and animist rebels have tried to kill as many people on the other side as possible by deliberate starvation and by bombs and bullets. Between them they have snuffed out more than 1.3 million lives. But Carter, in this case as in others, was undaunted, and once more has got results that looked most unlikely: a cease-fire during what is prime season for heavy fighting...
...Sudan and international agencies to carry out a major effort to eradicate guinea worm, prevent river blindness and immunize children against polio and other diseases," Carter said in a statement. The cash-strapped Muslim fundamentalist government spends more than $1 million a day on the war, which Christian and animist rebels have waged for economic reforms...
...Neves, 69, a descendant of slaves and Archbishop of Salvador in Brazil. The name most frequently invoked, however, is that of Francis Cardinal Arinze, the charming and efficient Archbishop from Nigeria who heads the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. A convert at the age of nine from the animist faith of the Igbo tribe, Arinze, now 62, enjoys robust health (he is an avid tennis player) and almost legendary status back home. During Nigeria's fratricidal 1967 civil war, he faced down government oppression and sustained his flock in a breakaway province...