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...Iglesia del Carmen, in an affluent neighborhood of the capital, the congregation applauded for several minutes after the letter was read. Members of the congregation waved white paper, white handkerchiefs and Panamanian flags after the service...
...measures the Sandinistas have been taking in recent months without the cloak of law. Their main target seems to be Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Church, led by the charismatic Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo. Days before Ortega's speech, Sandinista security agents had seized 10,000 copies of Iglesia, a new Catholic newsletter. Then just hours before the speech, government agents closed the magazine's office and seized its printing equipment. Apparently the publication offended the Sandinistas because it carried a letter from Cardinal Obando y Bravo defending the right of seminary students to adopt conscientious objector status. In September...
Some Argentines even reacted to the financial crisis with humor. The owners of one Buenos Aires restaurant, La Nonna Inmaculata, papered its walls with old pesos. Manager Jose de la Iglesia thinks the new decor will attract a nostalgic crowd...
...Catholic Church, which claims 84% of all Filipinos, is still a vast landholder and, despite a few far-sighted reformers, remains a bulwark of the ancien regime. As a result, a new church, the Iglesia ni Kristo (Church of Christ), is making inroads: since its founding in 1914 by an uneducated Manila hatter, it has acquired 3,000,000 members, who voted en bloc last year for Ferdinand Marcos...
Mayan got its second chance this June, when the Cuban freighter Aracelio Iglesia collided with a Norwegian ship near the Panama Canal and had to be towed to the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone for repairs. Again Mayan filed for attachment, again the Czech embassy intervened, and again-last month -the claim was dismissed...