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...work of armed rightist gangs, who often operate with the approval of traditional elements within the military. But leftist guerrilla bands have countered with a ruthlessness of their own. The most spectacular example of this cycle of violence and counterviolence was the coldblooded murder last April of Activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, apparently by rightist gunmen. At his funeral, 35 people died in a stampede believed to have been sparked by trigger-happy leftists, who overreacted to an imagined rightist attack...
...Brazil's progressive bishops and clergy were delighted by the Pope's bridge-building gestures toward them. In Recife, John Paul warmly-and publicly-embraced Archbishop Hélder Cámara, 71, detested by the conservative military regime for his advocacy of peasant rights; Dom Hélder had not been seen on Brazilian television in eight years. In Salvador, the Pope issued a blunt warning to Latin America's rulers: "The realization of justice in this continent presents a clear dilemma: either it will be done through profound and courageous reform, according to principles that...
...nearly a year goes on. The violence has already claimed 3,000 lives since January-more than four times the number killed in all of 1979. No one is safe. Some victims have been dragged from hospital beds and executed. Catholic priests have been brutally murdered. In March, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass. Earlier this month Father Cosme Spezzotto, an Italian priest who had worked with the poor in El Salvador for 30 years, was also gunned down as he was saying Mass...
Government spokesmen profess pleasure with things as they are. So does Archbishop Nikodim, 59, who is substituting for the ailing Metropolitan Yuvenali as foreign affairs director of the church. "In the West, for some reason, thousands of Orthodox priests in Russia are considered nearly as traitors, and two or three [dissident] persons are considered to be the church," says Nikodim. "I don't know Father Dudko. Maybe he is a wonderful person. But I think groups that exist, or would like to exist, around Dudko and others are not for the benefit of the church, since our church finds...
...Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie has denounced the murder and called upon Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr to safeguard the nation's religious minorities, already officially protected by law. The Koran advocates tolerance for Jews and Christians as "People of the Book" (in their case the Bible). Beyond that, the nation's new Islamic constitution guarantees freedom for both religions and for Zoroastrianism as well, provided they are practiced "within the law." (That means, for example, they cannot use wine in ritual because alcohol is banned in Iran.) Others are guaranteed no freedom of worship...