Word: rome
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...diplomatic receptions from London to Moscow the talk quickly turns to the Bulgarian Connection. Everyone in Europe, it seems, has become fascinated by an allegation that, if true, could profoundly undermine East-West relations: that a Turkish gunman's attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II in Rome 19 months ago was masterminded by the Soviet Union, which was angered by the Pontiffs support of Poland's Solidarity Union. The trail, it is rumored, could lead as high as Soviet Leader and former KGB Chief Yuri Andropov. The reactions in West European capitals range from total disbelief...
Much of the new evidence is believed to come from a confession given to Italian authorities by Mehmet Ali Agca, 24, the Turk who is now serving a life sentence in a Rome prison for his attempt on the Pope's life. According to accounts of his confession that were leaked to Rome newspapers, Agca says that he escaped from a Turkish jail in 1979 with the aid of a Turkish terrorist who allegedly worked for the Bulgarians. Agca went to Bulgaria and then to Rome, where he met three Bulgarians, including Sergei Ivanov Antonov, the head...
Italian authorities arrested Antonov earlier this month in Rome, and at Italy's request, West German police picked up another suspect in Frankfurt. The Italians also put out an arrest warrant for a former secretary to the Bulgarian military attaché and for an accountant at the Bulgarian embassy. The Bulgarian connection is further corroborated by telephone numbers that Agca gave to Italian authorities, which match those of Antonov's airline office and the Bulgarian embassy in Rome...
...sloppy to have been directed by the KGB. Says a West German intelligence official: "I cannot believe that the KGB would do something so slipshod and unprofessional. Why would the KGB be so stupid as to leave Bulgarians who were closely involved in the thing hanging around Rome, waiting to be arrested...
...process of adapting the Christian message to local traditions is "inculturation." The idea is not new. Four centuries ago, Father Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit missionary in China, tried to incorporate the Confucian reverence for ancestors into Catholic ritual. The Vatican quashed the experiment. Says one Catholic official in Rome who works with missionaries: "Inculturation is a difficult thing and sometimes I would say a dangerous thing. Leaving your own culture and adopting that of the people among whom you work may lead you to go too far, toward animism perhaps." At the moment, the first black archbishop in Zambia, Emmanuel...