Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the actual kidnaping itself, more than a month earlier, had Italy endured a week of such agony and torment. Was former Premier and Christian Democratic Leader Aldo Moro dead? Or was he alive-perhaps only briefly reprieved from the death sentence that his captors claim to have passed down on him? While police and soldiers continued to search cars at roadblocks across the country, the government threw thousands of specialized troops into a fruitless search for his body. Then, after receiving the second communiqué-as well as a new letter from Moro pleading for his life-Premier Giulio...
...communicate the completed execution of the President of the Christian Democrats, Aldo Moro, by means of suicide. The body is submerged in the muddy waters of Lake Duchessa. -Red Brigades Communiqué No. 7 April...
...answer was no: the ruling Christian Democrats firmly rejected the kidnapers' demand to bargain for an exchange of jailed terrorists. They did propose that the international Catholic relief organization, Caritas, act as intermediary to seek other "possible ways" to save Moro's life. In a dramatic eleventh-hour move, Pope Paul appealed directly to the kidnapers. "I beg you on my knees, free the Honorable Aldo Moro simply, unconditionally," the Pope wrote in his own microscopic handwriting on his personal notepaper, "not so much because of my humble and affectionate intercession, but because of his dignity...
...among American Jews. It played last week just before Passover, timed to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In Skokie, Ill., 7,000 who survived Auschwitz, Belsen and Treblinka awaited the promised march by American Nazis clothed in brown shirts and the First Amendment. Some Christian churches around the U.S. distributed yellow Stars of David for members to wear on their breasts; the gesture, sweet enough perhaps, smacked of moral self-congratulation. Displays like that are impressive only when they are risky, as in Holland...
Father Dudko is encouraged by the founding in 1976 of the Christian Committee for the Defense of Believers' Rights, though Father Gleb Yakunin and other leaders have reportedly been threatened with prosecution if they persist in their efforts. Dudko also takes heart from what he sees as a religious revival. "There is a spiritual crisis in this country, a vacuum that has to be filled," he says. "A woman came to me and asked for her child to be baptized even though she is not a Christian. Why? She replied, 'To fill the emptiness in my child...