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...wall" exists in the Constitution. It has been a "practical" wall that has been a good thing for the U.S. during its history. However, we have never had in this country a separation of church and state. There never was a time in American history when politics and churchmen haven't merged and blurred, including the evangelical ministers of the abolitionist movement who broke the back of slavery and on up through the civil rights movement. The wall is an imaginary wall intended to keep government off the back of the church, to prevent the officialdom of the church...
...took two Soviet Baptists to remind the churchmen that all was not as it seemed. During a prayer service, the two unfurled a banner reading REMEMBER, WE ARE A PERSECUTED CHURCH. They were promptly hustled away. A delegation leader later dismissed the prayer-service protest as an attempt to "grab media attention," but his view was not shared by all the Americans. Said one: "The message we got right from the start was not to do anything that might insult our Soviet hosts...
First chickens, then goats, then children The report from Zimbabwe's Bishops' Conference, an organization of Roman Catholic churchmen, was not pleasant reading for Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. It accused the Zimbabwe army of waging a campaign of terror in parts of Matabeleland province, into which government troops had been sent in January to flush out antigovernment rebels. The bishops charged that physical brutality was commonplace against the area's 450,000 inhabitants. "People are beaten up on the mere suspicion that they are helping dissidents or when they say they do not know anything about dissidents...
...transport in and out of the region. The bishops' report, which was given to the government two weeks before it was released publicly last week, stung the Prime Minister. Mugabe, 60, who was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Catholic Kutama Mission, wished the churchmen "success in their prayers," but declared that "the task of running the country belongs to the government...
Still, he became widely regarded as a martyr of science who had been humbled by backward churchmen. Despite some tributes to Galileo by later church leaders, including several Popes, his condemnation has continued to taint relations between the Vatican-indeed, perhaps all religious authority-and scientists...