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...Four Moslem speakers at the International Seminar Wednesday night discussed the modern changes in their countries and the role Islam still plays in the modern world...
...years, Roman Catholicism has closed up shop in the land that gave the church such great names as St. Cyprian of Carthage, Tertullian, the heretic Donatus, the virgin martyrs Perpetua and Felicity. Just concluded is a formal agreement between the Vatican and the government of predominantly Moslem Tunisia that calls for the surrender without compensation of all but seven of the country's 109 Catholic churches, including the vast Cathedral of St. Louis in Tunis. The government will have the right to veto appointments to the Archbishopric of Carthage, but in return guarantees freedom of religion for Catholics, including...
...country's Catholic population reached a peak of 300,000, nearly all of them Europeans. Thanks to post-independence emigration, there are 45,000 Catholics left; the empty churches stand as a sign of the old colonialism-and the church's failure in making converts among the Moslem population...
...modus vivendi for the Church. Paul has also established a new Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions, headed by Paolo Cardinal Marella of the Curia. In the past, the church has sometimes preferred noisy and heroic martyrdom rather than graceful surrender of ancient privileges. Now Rome, with Christian and Moslem Lebanon acting as intermediary, is trying to work out a "Tunisian formula" with Moslem-run Sudan, which this year abruptly exiled all of the country's Catholic and Protestant missionaries...
...graduate, and, in all, was arrested eight times by the British, serving a total of nine years in jail. In 1932, when police refused to let Indian nationalists hoist their flag on the clock tower of Allahabad, he rode by in a cart, disguised in the veils of a Moslem woman, suddenly leaped off and sprinted up the tower stairs, raising the flag before the police could stop...