South Texas Catholic Monthly (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 1, 1999 Page: 1 of 20
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VOl- N\XI\. NO.O “...lo inform, inspire, catechize. ai
The Diocese of Corpus Christi
will celebrate with four men
to be ordained to
the priesthood and
transitional diaconate
on Saturday, June 5, at 10 a.m.
in Corpus Christi Cathedral.
Congratulations to
Deacon Richard Libby and
Deacon Ralph Anthony Mendoza,
to be ordained to the priesthood
and to Romeo Salinas and
Pedro Elizardo, who will be
ordained transitional deacons.
Romeo Salmas
To be Ordained to the Diaconate
Pedro T. Elizardo
To be Ordained to the Diaconate
South
Forgotten wars: Church calls
world attention to crisis spots
By John Thavis
VATICAN CITY (CNS) —
While ihe world's attention was
focused on Kosovo this spring,
hidden chapters of suffering
were unfolding in scores of other
places around the globe.
Elsewhere in the world, armed
rebels were killed, soldiers
ambushed, civilians attacked by
paramilitary groups, families
lorced to flee their homes,
jgroups expelled from nations,
|bombs dropped on neighbor-
hoods, and bloody battles fought
|by ethnic groups.
From Colombia to Sierra
Leone, from Sri Lanka to East
Timor, populations are caught up
lin “forgotten wars” which, in
some cases, bear a resemblance
to the Kosovo conflict but have
proved even more deadly.
Experts estimate that in the
1990s alone, more than 1.5
million people have been killed
in war-ravaged places like
Afghanistan, Sudan, Rwanda and
Algeria. At present, armed
conflicts are simmering in at
least 25 countries.
In mid-May, an Iraqi delega-
tion came through Rome lo ask
Tope John Paul 11 to try to
teawaken public interest in the
fate of their civilian population.
They noted that U.S. bombing of
Iraqi targets — which provoked
12 reported civilian deaths in
one raid in early May — has
continued regularly in recent
weeks, in the face of apparent
international disinterest.
“With what’s happening in
Kosovo, the events in Iraq have
been relegated to the back-
ground. It’s turned into a
forgotten war, forgotten by the
international community and the
media," said Abdul Latif Hemim
Mohammed, a Shiite Muslim
leader and president of the Iraqi
Islamic Bank.
Also in Rome was the apos-
tolic nuncio to Ethiopia and
Eritrea, Archbishop Silvano
Tomasi, who said the casualty
toll in the past year of fighting
between those two countries has
been estimated at 40,000 dead
and 80,000 wounded, with some
300,000 civilians displaced.
“The pope has been practi-
cally the only one to consistently
call attention to these forgotten
wars of Africa,” Archbishop
Tomasi said.
In late April, after nearly a
month of intense bombing and
ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, the
pope surprised people at his
weekly general audience by
talking about the many conflicts
which are “soaking Africa in
blood” — in Angola, the Great
Lakes region, Congo, Sierra
Leone, Guinea Bissau, the Horn
of Africa and Sudan.
The pope’s own newspaper, .
LOsservatore Romano, tries to
follow the hidden conflicts more
closely than other media. This
spring, though, its front page
was consistently devoted to
Kosovo.
But if the pope turned to page
2 on May 16, for example, he
could read the following brief
items: A mass grave was discov-
ered in Sri Lanka, where a
soldier has confessed to taking
part in the killing of more than
400 civilians of the Tamil ethnic
group. Thirty rebels were killed
in a bombardment by Nigerian
peace-keeping troops in Sierra
Leone. Fifteen secessionist
leaders and eight soldiers died in
a battle in northern India, while
hundreds of Indian civilians fled
after alleged Pakistani bombard-
ments into the Indian state of
Kashmir. Three civilians were
killed by Algerian Muslim
extremists; and five people died
in continuing Indonesian riots.
Archbishop Tomasi said the
See WARS, page 15
CNS photo/Reuters
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei II releases a dove during a
service in April. He has said he cannot issue an invitation to
the pope to come to Russia until Catholics stop trying to
convert Orthodox believers.
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Espitia, Paula. South Texas Catholic Monthly (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 6, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 1, 1999, newspaper, June 1, 1999; Corpus Christi, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth855660/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .