Word: orthodox
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...with the country's Protestant President over population control. The Pope is also laying strategy for the 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing, which figures to be a replay of Cairo. In June, he plans to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. John Paul has long spoken of mending the breach between the Roman and Eastern churches that became final in - 1054. The Berlin Wall, put up in 1961, came down 11 years into his papacy; undoing the effects of a millennium may take him a little longer...
...Russian wrangling helped keep the CSCE from reaching any agreement on what to do about the war in Bosnia. Russia, which sympathizes with Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, blocked a proposal to condemn Serb attacks on the Muslim enclave of Bihac. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl suggested a bland appeal for a truce, but even that failed...
...meantime, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev charged last week that the Bosnian government launched its October offensive "with the clear intention of involving NATO." Moscow still has a proprietary interest in its Orthodox Serb kinfolk. It has never believed in bombing them into an enforced compromise...
...Orthodox Christian Fellowship, which had only 10 members three years ago, has grown to about 30 graduate and 30 undergraduate members today, according to co-chair Christiana M. Ajalat...
Leibovitz was a man of irony and rhetorical excess. A devoted Orthodox Jew, he relentlessly campaigned for the separation of synagogue and state. A witness to the unspeakable horrors of Nazi Germany, Leibovitz infuriated the Israeli public by referring to Israeli soldiers as "Judeo-Nazis...