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...church which helped her rise to the presidency on Jan. 20, after Joseph Estrada was swept from office in a popular uprising. Filipinos definitely wanted Estrada out, on corruption charges, but they were less sure they wanted Macapagal-Arroyo to replace him. It was only after the military and Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, head of the country's Catholic church, threw their support behind Macapagal-Arroyo, then vice-president, that she vaulted to power. Even today, according to one poll, Filipinos only give her a 34% approval rating...
...world economically and militarily, it will have to take a backseat spiritually. No one, it seems, wants a superpower Pope. But what about a Third World Pontiff? Talk of a Latin American has grown. Aside from Castrillon Hoyos, the buzz focuses on Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. John Paul is the first non-Italian Pope since the early 1500s. A Honduran successor looks like a stretch...
...Klerk claimed that economic sanctions delayed change in South Africa and that Ronald Reagan's "constructive engagement" policy was a good strategy for South Africa. In comparison, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in his book "No Future Without Forgiveness," had this to say: "Thus the apartheid government benefited hugely from President Ronald Reagan's notorious constructive engagement policy...
Stewart Ting Chong is from South Africa and served on the staff of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He also served on the Human Rights Committee of South Africa, a non-governmental organization...
...flatly denies any impropriety, saying she doesn't associate with Pineda or his crowd. "I don't drink with them," she tells Time. "I don't play mah-jongg with them." When she was asked to be godmother, she says she got counsel from Jaime Cardinal Sin, the archbishop of Manila. "Cardinal Sin said, as a Christian, if I am asked to be a godmother, it is my Christian duty," she relates, "because the sins of the father are not the sins of the son." In addition, Arroyo has included leftist groups in her three-month anti-Estrada opposition coalition...