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...month before he was assassinated, in 1981, President Anwar Sadat ordered the detention of Shenouda, eight bishops and 22 parish priests, accusing them of fomenting unrest. Since then, Shenouda has been forced to live at the 4th century Monastery of St. Bishoi, in the desert northwest of Cairo. In 1983 the government finally specified the charges against Shenouda. Among them: emphasizing a Coptic identity, urging churches to teach the old Coptic language, "encouraging hostility toward the regime" by asserting Copts' political grievances, and resisting legislation aimed at making Egypt more Islamic. Since then, however, Muslim and Christian enmity in Egypt...
...ardent supporters of Trinity Church's controversial pastor, D. Douglas Roth; their arrest marks the latest episode in an extraordinary series of events at his parish. Roth, who was appointed pastor of Trinity Lutheran in 1978, is a member of the Denominational Ministry Strategy, a social activist group of Pittsburgh-area clergy. D.M.S. is allied with a militant group of local labor leaders and unemployed workers, which has accused banks and businesses of undermining the local economy by investing funds and shifting jobs overseas...
...Stanislaw Kostka church has been turned into a makeshift shrine, decked with wreaths and Solidarity banners. Early last week more than 30,000 Poles jammed streets surrounding the church to hear the monthly "Mass for the Fatherland" that Popieluszko began shortly before the imposition of martial law. The parish priest at St. Stanislaw Kostka, Father Teofil Bogucki, delivered a tough homily charging that 40 years after the imposition of Communism in Poland, "society is paralyzed with terror and people are worn out by hopelessness." As the subdued crowd joined in reciting prayers and singing patriotic hymns, two youths climbed...
...most unchecked. Those Third World bishops who worry about the population problem promote only natural methods. In such nations as the Philippines and Kenya, Cardinals have publicly decried government population programs. For workaday Catholics in impoverished nations, however, it is often not bishops who define what is sinful but parish priests. On that level, the Pope faces increased individualism among priests in the Third World. Typical of many in overcrowded urban slums, Dominican Father Miguel Concha of Mexico City remarks, "If I know someone is using an artificial method, I'm not going to think they...
Bird, who also hit eight of eight free throws, got help from Robert Parish, who scored 18 points, and Dennis Johnson, who finished with 17 as Boston, 12-1, maintained the best record...