Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considered a great merit to have participated in an internationalist mission," says Filipe Suárez, 48, a C.D.R. official. "It is understood that someone who gives up a year or so of his life to help in Africa will be guaranteed his old job back." More to the point, many young Cubans, especially those with higher education, have difficulty finding work after they finish school, and they know a certificate of African service will help them on their return. Because of a postrevolutionary baby boom and the success of Castro's anti-illiteracy campaign, the Cuban job market...
...Ronald Chapman, head of the Elim Pentecostal Mission, where the massacre took place, prayed for mercy for "those who perpetrated this act of shame...
...Elim massacre-the most savage assault on whites in Rhodesia's history -was part of a rising tide of violence that threatens to engulf the breakaway British colony. Only days after Elim, two German Jesuits were killed by black nationalist guerrillas at St. Rupert's Mission, 90 miles west of Salisbury, bringing the black and white civilian death toll to almost 600 so far this year. The guerrillas have also suffered losses-not all of them in raids and counterattacks by the Rhodesian army. In nearby Zambia, a top lieutenant to Joshua Nkomo, one of the co-leaders...
...killed by the guerrillas since 1972; almost as many others have been expelled by a government that demands immediate reports on terrorist activity. "If you talk, you die, and if you don't, you go to prison," says an Irish Catholic sister who now works in Salisbury; her mission station was burned to the ground three months ago. Nearly 80% of all Catholic missionary work has come to a halt. Says a Protestant missionary: "We are now caretakers, not evangelists. I make no bones about it. We're running scared...
...when I arrived in Loyang, the provincial, capital of Honan; and there at the station, in the dark, they were packing refugees into boxcars like lumber for the night run over the gap. And again, the stink of urine and bodies; then, through the deserted streets to the Catholic mission...