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...BELGIUM Nuns on Trial in Rwandan Genocide Four Rwandans, including two Roman Catholic nuns, went on trial in Brussels in connection with the 1994 genocide in the Central African country once administered by Belgium. They pleaded not guilty to assisting the Hutu killers. The trial is the first under a Belgian law allowing charges to be brought in the country for human rights crimes committed anywhere...
...case, Jesus' radical new synthesis--and his dramatic preaching of it--was dangerous, especially in an atmosphere that Schwartz says had turned into "a tinderbox." Herod had managed to keep a lid on anti-Roman sentiment for most of his reign. But starting with his fatal illness in 4 B.C. and continuing over the careers of several less effective successors, a series of bloodily suppressed revolts erupted...
...angry Jews, protesting the execution of students who had tried to remove a Roman eagle from the Temple decorations, threw stones down on their occupiers from the mount's porches and set off a citywide riot; eventually 2,000 rebels were crucified. In A.D. 26, the Roman governor provocatively ordered his troops to raise flags with Caesar's face within a few hundred feet of the central shrine. A mob marched to his house in Caesarea. His soldiers drew their swords. The Jews, in an extraordinary act of passive resistance, laid bare their necks and said they would rather...
...situations now and then are not analogous. Israel's current Jewish government, unlike the Roman Empire, is not alien to Jerusalem. The Palestinians are not as defenseless as the ancient Jews. And Israeli opposition leader (now Prime Minister) Ariel Sharon's unwelcome stroll last September around the two Islamic shrines that now occupy the Temple platform--a provocation that may have sparked the Holy Land's current strife when Muslims responded by throwing rocks down on Jews at prayer below--has no precise 1st century cognate. Still, the intertwined dynamic of military occupation and religious clash is shockingly familiar...
...Even if we believe that the Holy Spirit will eventually choose the next Pope by guiding the hand of his electors, we must still admit that the Holy Spirit's hand will have been steered by that of John Paul II. Sadly, the 1 billion followers of the Roman Catholic faith are not represented; they just follow. My impression is that the Cardinals have invested their lives in climbing the lofty hierarchy of the church in a frantic search for power. This is reinforced by the fact that your article says nothing about the spiritual and social values...