Word: religione
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Anticipating this study, the code pledges to protect privacy (except when there is a "public interest" in intruding), to provide an opportunity for reply, to correct mistakes promptly, and to avoid irrelevant references to race, color and religion. The code also promises an end to the sort of deception that followed the Sheffield soccer tragedy, when journalists posed as social workers to interview grieving relatives...
...speeches in Rome, one of them with Pope John Paul II at his side, Mikhail Gorbachev spoke about the decline of Communism, the future of Europe and the role of religion in terms that few people would ever have expected from a Kremlin leader. Excerpts...
...RELIGION...
Rebirth of the Ukrainian churches may stir the sort of nationalist fervor that is inextricably linked with religion. Along with economic failure, this unrest poses the gravest of threats to Gorbachev's regime. Yet Gorbachev apparently calculates that the movement will be safer aboveground and in contact with a Pope who preaches against political violence. The major reason that Gorbachev has not done more for the Ukrainian Catholics has been pressure from the Russian Orthodoxy, which stands to lose half its flock in some regions...
...RELIGION: Ending a bitter 72-year war against the church...