Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worse transgressors against human rights in Africa are from other countries, Leslie A. Harriman, permanent representative to the United Nations' Nigerian mission said to an audience of approximately 200 in Gund Hall...
Learning of this, six irate military attaches at the mission, led by Ma jor General Mokhateb Rafii, called Zahedi in Morocco and told him what had happened. Equally irate, Zahedi ordered them to put the pictures back in place. Armed with revolvers, the attaches marched into the embassy last Tuesday night, remounted the Shah's por traits, and settled down for a siege...
...class struggle," said the Pope. "This idea of Christ as a political figure, a revolutionary, as the subversive man from Nazareth, does not tally with the church's catechesis." The Gospel and the church, he preached, must transcend all political ideologies. But while the church's mission is "not social or political," the church "cannot fail to consider man in the entirety of his being." In particular, Christians must seek a "more just and equitable distribution of goods, not only within each nation but also in the world in general...
...Puebla address drew careful limits on priestly activism. It emphasized that political work is largely the task of the laity. In other speeches, the Pope warned a meeting of nuns against secularizing their mission, and told a large gathering of the clergy, "Be priests, not social workers or political leaders or functionaries of a temporal power...
Ruiz said she wanted the "Thirty Minutes" program to awaken people to the conditions migrant laborers face. She described working in the fields in New York from May to November and then returning to school in Mission, Texas, for the rest of the year...