Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Mao, that power grows from gun barrels. By no coincidence the most humane Marxist societies in Europe today are those that, like Poland or Hungary, permit the dilution of their doctrine by what Solzhenitsyn has called "the great reserves of mercy and sacrifice" from a Christian tradition. Yet if there is any doubt about what the focus of the purest of revolutionary values is, consider the first three lines of the national anthem of Democratic Kampuchea...
Even as the armaments were being offloaded, thousands of Lebanese were fleeing the beleaguered capital, where Christian and Muslim sections were once again separated by an impassable no man's land. All plane seats out of the city were booked for the rest of the month. Other refugees fled up the mountain roads to small villages. "The mountains are the last safe place," said a carpenter as he filled his pickup truck with relatives and children. "It will not be possible to build a new life there, but we can stay alive. All we can do is hope...
Among all the innocent bystanders caught in the Rhodesian conflict, however, none face a more agonizing dilemma than Rhodesia's Christian missionaries, who for years have provided education and health care to blacks. Their stations, schools and orphanages have become targets of suspicion for both the army and the nationalist guerrillas. The missions face a problem if they do not report local guerrilla movements to the government and a problem if they do. In the past two years, 25 missionaries have been deported, accused of aiding the rebels. Last month 13 men, women and children at the British Pentecostal...
...would invite trouble for the students. The officers then asked to be allowed to bring the body of a dead terrorist to the school so the students would draw an obvious lesson. Yes, said Father Prosser, they might do so if the mission could give the guerrilla a Christian burial. At that, the army left and did not return...
...clear that they, indeed all active Catholics, face harassment, torture and death at the hands of the vigilantes, the national police and the dreaded 50,000-member "Orden" militia. This past Easter at least 29 people were killed in a vicious raid on an area where the Christian Peasants' Federation was active...