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m AROUteffltelVORLD Religions Pool Efforts to Aid Biafra At Manila Earthquake Scene A. Chinese woman says the rosary while waiting for word on the fate of her relatives trapped in a Manila apartment house which collapsed during the A.ug. 2 earthquake. More than 200 people were rescued from the rubble of the building. (KNS Photo) Priests Tax Selves For Charity Vienna, A-ustria (NC) - Priests of the Vienna archdiocese will donate two per cent of their sal- aries to international relief agencies. The priests made this decision in response to an appeal by the new archdiocesan priests' council stressing the co-responsibility of all Catholics for the welfare of people and the Church in other coun- tries, i% accordance with the Second Vatican Coun- cil; •'''•'•• Anglicans Double Rome Center Fund • < London (RNS) — The Anglican Center in Rome with Archbishop Michael Ramsey of Canterbury opened during his visit to Pope Paul in March, 1966/will be strengthened as the result of a deci- sion made by the Lambeth Conference. The center contains an extensive library avail- able to Catholics wishing to learn about Anglican doctrine and liturgy. It gets a $9,600 annual' grant from,,AngJicafe ||[g|Bgjlh^3lll ffi IW***\ 1 ZtfBSBfoM I • I | I I I I I | i ' tw V-\' <•\ '• Reptfei Workers Leaving Vietnam Auckland, New Zealand (RNS) — New Zea- landers -working in South Vietnam with Asian Chris- tian Service are being withdrawn because it is too dangerous for people from countries militarily a- ligned to Saigon to remain there, it was reported htere. The Auckland Methodist newspaper said that the terms of the three New Zealand church repre- sentatives leaving South Vietnam had expired. Other New Zealanders there will be transferred to Laos, it stated. Baby Food Flown To Biafra Amsterdam (RNS) — A Dutch aircraft left here on a chartered flight with 30 tons of baby food collected by a U.S. Catholic mission society for the relief ! of Biafran children. The aircraft will fly to the Portuguese island of Sao lome and a local aviation company will fly the food 1 from there to BLafra's only ainield, iocat- ed in the dense forest country. Religious News Service Religious interest in Biafra, denounced by a Nigerian of- ficial as \interfering\, is ris- ing to new heights »i involve- ment and ecumenical cooper- ation as the prospect of mass starvation faces refugees in the small, besieged country. Varying estimates iiave been given on bow many innocent Biafran civilians will die as a resultr of the Tvar in Ni- geria's fornoier Eastern Re- gion. Even the smallest fig- ure generally given by ob- servers, one million, is enor- mous and a consensus has set- tled on this as a fair estimate of those who face starvation this Summer. Others have given estimates twice or even four times as Large. Besides starvation, the refu- gees face a whole array of medical problems resulting from uprooting:, exposure and crowding in-more than 600 refugee villages. Whether or not they all face death, the simple fact is that 4.5 million persons have been made homeless- by a war which most people in Europe and the United States virtual- ly ignored until it reached its final, dramatic phase. Some 1.8 million of these refugees, members of Biaffra's largest tribe, the Jbos, had come back to Biafra earlier, following a massacre through- out the Northern Begion of Courier-Journal—Friday, August 16, 1968 WbUngWll For WEDDINGS BANQUETS — CLUBS — CHURCH GROUPS Dinners & Luncheons American Express DINERS CLUB AAA Approved your hosts, KAY and EMMETT DAILEY 11 »0 Chill Av«., koclMtttt-. N. Y. 32S-4U0 \Biafrans are people awake to civilization. We can- not think without sorrow of those good and hard- working people, now completely upset by civil war and dying of hunger and illness.\— Pope Paul VI. Priests ct Hielm Of Seizure <•/ Chile Cathedral \ to Santiago, Chile—(NC) — A large group of priests and lay- men took control of the ca- thedral here <Aug. 11) for about 14 hours to protest what it called the spending\ on Pope forthcoming visit to Latin America. Pope Paul will go to Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 22-24 for the 39th international Eucharistic Congress. The group urged Uhe Church to unite with the peopel in their struggle for justice and love. The group—which, reported- ly included, eight pxiests and about 200 young men and women — prevented regular communicants from attending Sunday Masses, but 3ield their own Mass before leaving the cathedral. On the previous day (Aug. 10) the group had planted about 20 persons in the church. Shortly ; be£orfi< the; following 4|)!i£^f{ sons opened oae i; dQ»r,a7fd2p|IIV. mitted the rest of t3ie prows- tors to slip in. A-iter that, only the press and xadio rep- resentatives were allowed in so that the group could ex- plain its reasons fox* the pro- test Nigeria in which, it is re- ported, more than 30,000 Ibos had been- killed. - To feed all these homeless people, experts estimate, more than 200 tons of food must be brought into Biafra daily. Unable to move these sup- plies into the encircled coun- try by land or sea, interna- tional agencies, including the Red Cross, the World Council of Churches and the Catholic agency, Caritas, have been flying by night through Ni- gerian anti-aircraft fire to land food and medicine on im- provised airstrips in the Biaf- ran interior. Aid for the flights 'has also been given by many national religious agencies including, wasteful —in tfae United States, Catholic Paul Vl's Belief Services and Church World Service, the relief agency of the National Coun- cil of Churches. The flights are managed by a private, charter agency operating from Portugal and the Portuguese-owned island of Sao Tome, off the West coast of Africa. The cost of transportation alone is about $20,000 per flight. Against this background, Nigeria's commissioner of transport, Joseph S. Tarka charged that the Churches have been \interfering in Ni- geria's civil war.\ Tarka singled out his own Church for special blame. \I myself am a Catholic,\ he said. \1 was born a Catholic, but I object to the Catholic Church interfering in Ni- geria.\ He complained that \every- one seems to think the only Christians in the country are in Biafra.\ A Biafran medical student in the United States, Dr. Nehe Nwankwa said recently in New York that religion is not the chief cause of the war. 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