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...growth is the greatest. Worldwide, there has been a 41% increase in the number of Catholics (from 757 million in 1978 to 1.09 billion in 2003). Africa has seen the most rapid growth, a 168% jump in members. Similarly, while the overall number of diocesan priests rose a mere 2.5% during the Pope's reign, that count in Africa went...
...illegal school for priests. "I could have been arrested any day and taken away to a concentration camp," he wrote later. "Sometimes I would ask myself: so many young people of my own age are losing their lives, why not me? Today I know that it was not mere chance." The trust that he was God's instrument, that he was not roughly predestined but specifically preserved to find his place at the turn of the millennium, lay behind his every act. In his evangelization, he was so terribly urgent; in his doctrine, so unbending; for the children, so utterly...
...boxes, for instance, meant to symbolize an open voting system, will instead enable observers to see how people vote, warn ZANU-PF officials. After the last few years of state-sponsored thuggery, the threat is clear. "You don't have to murder now," says MDC M.P. David Coltart. "The mere presence [of those behind past violence] is enough to intimidate...
...mere 46 seconds into the second frame, junior Carrie Schroyer played the puck up to sophomore Jennifer Sifers along the right side boards. Sifers then broke up ice ahead of two Minnesota defenders before unleashing a wrister past Gophers’ goalie Jody Horak into the top right shelf...
...these offensive guns are reinforced by the nation’s second-best defense, which allows an average of just 1.31 goals per-game this season and held Dartmouth’s nationally second-best offense to a mere 10 shots on goal—including zero in the final frame—in the Gophers’ 7-2 trouncing of the Big Green Friday night...