Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hope rose last week for a truce in Colombia's bitter religious strife. A Colombian Catholic, José Maria Chaves, 29, now teaching at Queens College, New York, and worried about anti-Protestant violence in his homeland, suggested a formula for peace. Its gist: Protestants should agree to a missionary quota, stop publicizing persecution unless new attacks occur, limit preaching to churches, avoid attacking Catholic dogmas and priests. The Roman Catholic Church and the pro-Catholic government should agree to denounce and punish anti-Protestant assaults, guarantee freedom of worship...
...Santa Marta Mountains, whose 19,000-ft. snow peaks are a breathtaking sight to tourists on Caribbean cruise ships, an Austrian-born anthropologist brought news of an Indian tribe so cut off that until recently its 2,000 members thought Spanish kings still ruled Colombia. The scientist is Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 40, working with a grant from New York's Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Indians are the Kogis, perhaps the most remarkable community of aborigines still flourishing on the American continents...
...With a $160,000 annual subsidy from church funds, the editors turned out a newsy, well-written publication which manages to cover developments inside the church without neglecting issues of broader Christian interest, e.g., the Point Four program, the problems of church-state relationships, the persecution of Protestants in Colombia. Until two years ago, however, circulation hung around the 80,000 mark, about par for a religious paper in the U.S. but scarcely what its founders had hoped...
Presidential proclamation of the treaty will make Chile the fifth Latin American nation to put in force a military mutual-aid agreement with the U.S. Others: Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador. Uruguay last week signed a similar pact, but like Brazil, still has to ratify it. Mexico, eighth country invited by the, U.S., declined...
...organization representing 17 Protestant denominations with missions in Colombia...