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...left one man injured at the offices of a charity in the commercial capital Karachi. The unidentified men entered the Institute for Peace and Justice, tied and gagged their victims, and then shot them in the head. "I don't believe this was a terrorist attack," said Simeon Pereira, Archbishop of Karachi. Instead, he suspected a "grudge" and linked the murders to that of the charity's chairman Ivan Moon four months ago. INDIA Rocking the Vote The second phase of voting in Kashmir's state elections ended in an atmosphere poisoned by violence and a call for boycott...
...communist regime emulating St. Paul by smuggling out messages to his followers and evangelizing his jailers; in Vatican City. Born into a prominent Catholic family?his uncle was former South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem?Thuan became Bishop of Nha Trang in 1967. Shortly after his appointment as Archbishop of Saigon in 1975 the city fell to the communists, who arrested Thuan as a subversive and imprisoned him without trial. He was expelled from Vietnam in 1991 and spent the rest of his life at the Vatican, heading the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Thuan was elevated to cardinal...
APPOINTED. ROWAN WILLIAMS, 52, Welsh archbishop; as Britain's 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Anglican church; by Prime Minister Tony Blair; in London. Among issues on which he has spoken out: church marriages for divorced people and ordination of gays and women (he's for both); Western military intervention (he has warned against it); and The Simpsons ("one of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue...
...played second base for the famed Rockford Peaches, portrayed in the 1992 film A League of Their Own. NAMED. DR. ROWAN DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, 52, well known academic theologian who was previously Bishop of Monmouth, then Archbichop of Wales, and who became Oxford's youngest professor at age 36, as Archbishop of Canterbury; in London. A poet and prolific author, the most recent of Williams' books is Writing in the Dust: After September 11th. (Williams was two blocks away from the twin towers on Sept. 11.) He succeeds Dr. George Carey, who retires at the end of October after eleven...
...past, candidates have petitioned and run on platforms advocating particular issues. For example, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was elected at the height of a campaign to force the University to divest from holdings in Apartheid South Africa...