Word: archbishop
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...President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is a strong believer in a series of % visitations by the Madonna in the small town of Cuapa, where Mary was witnessed by a church caretaker several times from May through October of 1980. During a 1981 Mass celebrated at the spot by the Archbishop of Managua, with some 30,000 people in attendance, believers say the sun changed colors. In Hrushiw, Ukraine, tens of thousands of people gathered in 1987 after a 12- year-old claimed to see the Madonna hovering over a church that had been shut down by the ruling communists...
Britain's hostage ordeal ended with the return of Waite, the high-profile envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the last British captive in Lebanon. But as bells joyously tolled his freedom, the homecoming unleashed feverish speculation about the role the U.S. -- and maybe Waite himself -- had played in his capture. Did Waite know of Washington's secret arms dealings? And was he a willing agent, or an unwitting collaborator? Before his capture, Waite denied any knowledge of the U.S. arms-for-hostages scheme...
...heated elections over the next several years, HRAAA succeeded in getting four of its candidates--among them South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--elected to the board...
Cardinal Bernard Law, the archbishop of Boston, and Weld disagreed over other provisions. Law insisted the bill would virtually guarantee abortion on demand through the full nine months of pregnancy, while Weld aides said it would not change current legal restrictions on abortion access...
...rare news conference at his residence, Law read a statement on behalf of himself as archbishop of Boston and on behalf of the bishops of the state's three other Roman Catholic dioceses...