Word: colombia
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...Catholic Colombia, hatred of Protestants-especially the active, evangelistic denominations-has long been cultivated. Ever since 1887, when Roman Catholicism became the country's official religion, Catholics found a lively response to whispering campaigns against the threat of Protestantism. Conservative Party Dictator Gómez was convinced that all Protestants were members of the Liberal Party and hence his mortal enemies. Just before Gómez was overthrown by Rojas in 1953, his government signed an agreement with the Vatican cutting two-thirds of the country into 18 mission territories in which only Catholic churches and schools could operate...
...annual executive meeting of the Baptist World Alliance in Hamilton. Ont., the Rev. Theodore Adams of Richmond (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955), president of the alliance, charged that Baptists are being persecuted in many Latin countries-especially Spain and Colombia. But in Russia, reported Moscow's red-bearded Rev. Yakov Zhidkov, Baptists are doing nicely. Each year, he said, the Russian Baptist Church gains 10,000 to 15,000 members. He added blandly: "Under the Russian constitution all religions have equal freedom of worship. The atheists have freedom too, and they have places where they teach atheism." Said...
Long torn by political splits that grew to open warfare and cost 100,000 lives, Colombia last week faced the future with cautious optimism. After two weeks of talks, an eight-man commission, half from the Liberal Party and half from the Conservative, presented to an approving five-man military junta a 22-page document spelling out an agreement designed to give each party an equal share in political power for the next twelve years. The military, in turn, promised that it will step out next year. Next step: a plebiscite to confirm the agreement...
...Decided not to accuse the Roman Catholic Church directly of violating religious liberty in Colombia and other South American countries, but to make a quiet study of the situation first...
...fall of dictatorships all over South America has left Venezuela's General Marcos Perez Jiménez a lonely military strongman. Gone are Peru's General Manuel Odría, Argentina's General Juan Perón, Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. For a bird-of-a-feather to help him celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day, President Pérez Jiménez could find only President Alfredo Stroessner of tiny, backward Paraguay. Flags of the two countries flew side by side all over Caracas last week as General Stroessner and a party...