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...unmistakably cool. Tight security measures cramped the Pontiff's usual hand-pressing style, but police cordons could not wholly explain the disappointing turnout at stops along his route. Indian political and non-Christian religious leaders sometimes strained to put a distance between themselves and the spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church, whose travel plans had stirred an angry response from extremist members of the country's Hindu majority. Spectators offered little of the exuberant affection that has greeted the Pope on most of his 28 previous foreign pilgrimages...
...Pope ended the week in the southernmost state of Kerala, India's Roman Catholic heartland. Here, finally, was the sort of welcome to which the Pontiff is accustomed. Some 400,000 people attended the first beatification ceremony ever in India. John Paul told the clerics in the audience that he hoped the ceremony "will give you renewed zeal for your precious vocation." This week the Pope will visit Bombay, where he is expected to mention the controversial issue that he has avoided during his stay in the world's second most populous nation: birth control...
...administration. He took steps to defuse tribal conflicts by distributing important government jobs among representatives of Nigeria's major tribes, the Ibo, Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Babangida himself is a Muslim from the Nupe tribe in the northern part of the country. His striking wife Maryam is a Roman Catholic of Ibo background. The First Couple have become well known for their frequent soirees where guests can easily and openly engage in discussions of nearly every aspect of Nigerian life...
...same day, Aquino received her strongest boost yet from Jaime Cardinal Sin, the ranking Roman Catholic prelate of the Philippines. The Cardinal praised the presidential challenger as someone who will "make a good President." He added, "I am tempted to ask, Is this a presidential election, or is this a contest between good and the forces of evil?" Sin's all-but- explicit endorsement carried considerable weight in a country that is nominally 84% Catholic...
...Rupert Murdoch wants to do--create an alternative fourth network." The video preachers are often bitter competitors behind their on-camera smiles, yet Armstrong contends they constitute a network nonetheless, one defined by a shared viewpoint. To the dismay of more liberal Protestants, not to mention Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders, the people who have seized spiritual control of the tube are unremittingly Evangelical or Fundamentalist. Four of the top stars are part of the Pentecostal movement, which emphasizes the emotive and miraculous aspects of faith. Sunbelt churchianity is ubiquitous, and whenever there is a political tilt to the broadcasts...