Word: faithfull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Paul will follow a similar schedule at each stop. He will be greeted at the airport by government officials and later will meet privately with the head of state. The high point of each visit will be an open-air Mass on a site large enough to hold crowds...
The split is mirrored by a similar division among the faithful. The Sandinistas draw Catholic support from "base communities," church-sponsored discussion groups that emphasize political consciousness-raising, as well as Christian student university groups and those intellectuals who espouse liberation theology. In reaction, the bishops have created their own...
For the villagers of San Martino, the feast of San Lorenzo is the night when wishes come true. This night, Aug. 10, 1944, there is much to wish for and little hope of satisfaction. The German army is in retreat, dragging its dead across northern Italy. Gangs of Blackshirts, faithful...
A promising writer whose early fiction appeared in the 1960s in Novy Mir, the respected Soviet literary monthly, Vladimov has not had a word published in the Soviet Union since July 1969. His fiction evidently drew too accurate a portrait of how Stalin's shadow still hangs over the...
Although the book consists of personal remembrances of Sakharov, it contains as well a few pieces of fiction that relate more or less explicitly to his plight or to the state of human rights in Russia. Though enjoyable to read, these seem not to fit into the book. Much more...