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...culmination of an especially bloody week in the city. On Wednesday, another car bomb had exploded in East Beirut, killing 15 people, many of them children, and shattering a six-story apartment building. Scores of civilians also fell victim to artillery and mortar exchanges between rival Christian and Muslim forces. WEST GERMANY Fatal Identity...
...long-range effort to strengthen Rome's spiritual ties with the important African church. The ranks of Catholics on the continent tripled between 1950 and 1970, and now grow by 2 million per year. (Current total: an estimated 77 million out of the more than 200 million Christians in Africa.) In line with his strategy, the Pontiff had few kind words for the West, and even offered one apology: "Men belonging to Christian nations did not always act [as Christians], and we ask our African brothers who suffered so much, for example because of the slave trade, for forgiveness...
...Pope had a related goal: to urge balance between respect for African and Catholic traditions. "Having received the Christian faith, develop it," he bade the Togolese. But he warned, "It is not the Gospel that must change. It is the different cultures that must strive to better absorb the life and spiritual health brought to the world by Jesus Christ...
...Christianity faces another external challenge, from Islam. South of the Sahara, Christian-Muslim relations generally are good, and the tension at the moment is mainly that of competition in seeking converts. In Cameroon, during one of several meetings he arranged with Muslim chieftains, John Paul addressed them as "brothers," and urged them to "walk hand in hand" with Christians "to serve God and humanity." Before returning to Rome this week, the Pope for the first time was to accept an invitation from the head of an Islamic state, King Hassan II of Morocco, to deliver an unprecedented speech...
...Missing Person, Father Leo sees action in Las Vegas. Ironically, the gambling town offers him better spiritual opportunities than the Star of the Sea convent, where he is chaplain: "The director of novices described herself as a 'Post-Christian' and at Easter sent out cards showing an Indian god ascending to the clouds with arms waving out of his sides like a centipede's. Some held jobs in town. The original idea had been for the nuns to serve the community in some way, but now they did what they wanted to do. One was a disc jockey...