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...Fatimite movement is composed of Catholics who believe that Mary, the mother of Jesus, appeared to three children six times in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. The last time she appeared, 70,000 people had gathered to pray with the children...
...Catholics this meant individual prayer "for the conversion of Russia" and for the avoidance of war. The children told church officials that if the Pope, in union with the world's bishops, consecrated the world and Russia to Mary of Fatima, Russia would "be converted" and "a great period of peace" would follow...
Although the Vatican pronounced the apparitions genuine, the Pope was slow to react to Fatima. Fatimites imply that the evils of Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany and the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia could have been avoided if only Catholics and the pope had responded more quickly...
...Union staff members are in favor of the entire program, however. Employee Fatima D. Pereira said that she is enjoying the Dairy Week activities, but said, "it's just the hats we don't enjoy...
...have nothing for the Israelis except stones and Molotov cocktails and feeding our babies with the milk of hatred for them," said Fatima, 60, mother of one of the Palestinians deported last week. Several Palestinians offered predictions confirming Israel's worst fears. "Al-Wazir's killing will no doubt weaken the moderate voices and take Arafat to extremist positions," warned a doctor in Gaza. A Palestinian lawyer offered a prognosis that the Israelis may find even more distressing. "The killing of Abu Jihad," he said, "may achieve Palestinian unity...