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- <text id=93TT0972>
- <title>
- Feb. 22, 1993: The Pope In Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 22, 1993 Uncle Bill Wants You
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- WORLD
- The Pope In Africa
- </hdr>
- <body>
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- <p> Any visit to Sudan, no matter how brief, would lend the Vatican's
- imprimatur to a government "dripping with the blood of Christians."
- That was the warning of a Sudanese bishop who conferred with
- John Paul II in Uganda on the Pope's 10th African tour, left.
- Never a man for circumvention, the Pope thanked his bishop for
- the advice--and then headed straight for Khartoum, where he
- implored a regime accused of widespread religious persecution
- to end its "terrible harvest of suffering." In the past decade,
- hundreds of thousands have died in a civil war between Sudan's
- Muslim government in the north and the animist and Christian
- black societies in the south.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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