Word: enugu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, Nigeria seemed tranquil enough. A dozen ocean-going freighters thrashed seaward from Lagos' Apapa Quay, laden with cocoa, groundnuts, rubber and timber. In the Eastern Region's capital of Enugu, helmeted coal miners queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes...
...Enugu, capital of the Ibos' Eastern Region, Military Governor Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu barricaded himself inside police headquarters, declared his opposition to the new regime and called in Ibo political leaders to line up their support. "After these cruel and bloody atrocities," he charged, "can the people of Nigeria ever live together as members of the same nation...
Even before Blake suggested that Protestantism should consider the impact of Roman Catholic renewal on the ecumenical movement, the World Council of Churches was acting on the need. At the end of its annual meeting last week in Enugu, Nigeria, the council's 100-man Central Committee voted to establish with the Vatican a joint working committee to discover areas of interfaith cooperation...
...that there seemed little doubt, since the World Council proposal had been approved in principle by the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity during six months of secret discussion last year. Said French Dominican Theologian Jérome Hamer, one of Rome's official observers at Enugu: "Beyond all doubt, this is a step forward...
Altering the Course. At Enugu, op position to Rodger came from the Rus sian Orthodox representatives, who appreciate Visser 't Hooft's great interest in keeping open the lines of communication between churches on both sides of the Iron Curtain. African and Asian leaders were also disturbed about en trusting the secretaryship to an inexperienced ecumenist. "It is not enough to keep the council on course," explained one "new church" spokesman...