Page 2, 24th August 1984

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Is Liberation About To Die?

A PROMINENT Brazilian theologian Fr Leonardo Boff has been summoned to the Vatican for questioning on September 7. It will be a significant occasion as Fr Boff is a prominent......

Deadlock Over Schools

by our Maltese correspondent THE CHURCH schools issue in Malta has now reached a delicate stage with the Socialist Government of Prime Minister Dorn Mintoff and the Church......

Protest By Priest Over Jail Without Trial

by Peter Stanford A CATHOLIC worker-priest has vigorously protested at his continued imprisonment without trial as part of a police crackdown on the left-wing terrorist......

Anti Religious Play Causes Mayhem

SPAIN in the heat of the summer months is more usually associated with the pleasures of its sandy beaches than with flying bottles, bomb threats and stabbings, all in the name......

Overseas News In Brief

Fasting day CHURCHES IN South Africa have called for a day of fasting today and a day of special prayer on Sunday in protest at the Government's policy of forced removal of......

Church Protests To Thai Government

A LARGE number of Christian organisations including the World Council of Churches, the British Council of Churches, Christian Aid, the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development and......

Cuban Pastoral Talks

CUBAN bishops are planning a national pastoral conference in 1985 to discuss the role of the Church in contemporary Cuba. The bishops plan to invite priests, members of......

Pope's Good Wishes For South Pacific

POPE JOHN PAUL II has sent cordial good wishes to the Catholic community in the South Pacific on the occasion of the I50th anniversary of the arrival of the first Christian......

Beware The West's Lure Says Glemp

ADDRESSING 200,000 pilgrims at Jasna Gore, home of the shrine of the Black Madonna, on the Feast of the Assumption Cardinal Josef Glemp accused West German groups of seeking to......