wfn.org | Ecumenical News International Summary Jan 11, 1996

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Date:     Thu, 11 Jan 1996 17:30:19 +0100

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11 January 1996

Sarajevo greets its Orthodox leader four years after appointment
	Sarajevo (ENI). A Serbian Orthodox church leader responsible
for Sarajevo has celebrated his first church service in the
Bosnian capital since his appointment four years ago. During a
service at the capital's Church of Archangels Michael and
Gabriel, the metropolitan - or archbishop - urged Sarajevo's
remaining 30 000 Bosnian Serbs to stay put when their districts
revert to Bosnian government control under the US-brokered Dayton
peace accord. [ENI-96-0022, 471 words]

Guatemala's Christians welcome 'lesser of two evils'
	Guatemala City (ENI).  As Alvaro Arzu prepares for his
inauguration on 14 January as Guatemala's new president, church
leaders here are cautiously hopeful that his election will mean
greater political space in which Guatemala's poor majority can
organise for reform. A conservative Roman Catholic, Arzu won 51.2
per cent of the vote on 7 January against Alfonso Portillo.
Vitalino Similux, executive secretary of the Guatemalan Council
of Evangelical Churches, told ENI: "I agree with ... a peasant
who told me that voters had a choice between one candidate who
would kill us with arms, with war, and another candidate who
would kill us with poverty. In the end, with either one we're
going to die." [ENI-96-0023, 643 words]

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