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The Philippines Action Support Croup took their cause to the gates of St Mary's Cathedral last s unday where Edmund Stewart. Sue K ell and Marys Stewart were pictured w ith one of the b anners. Petitions supporting Father Brian Gore were on d isplay at many churches, and so far near! 7000 signatures tiae been collected.
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FATHE GORE The gloves are off and the gospel message is on the line said Father Brian Gore this week hours before he was due t o appear on Wednesday before a board in Manila that was to decide on his deportation. The sad part, he told Father Brian Morrison on the 6PR Howard Sattler programme last Tuesday. was that he is likely to be only the first of many foreign missionaries who the politicians and military have vowed to get rid of. More ominous is the latest charge that has appeared against Father Gore that along with Father Niall O'Brien. a fellow Columban, and six other Filipinos he is accused of last year's ambush murder of the local mayor. Father Gore calls the whole charge "laughable" because three of the charged Filipinos are already dead and their circumstances of their death warrant an investigation he said. "Each day that goes past it is becoming more and more a Cinderella circus". he declared saying that he is feeling the strain "but ready for a good fight".
"They should know me by this and that it is part of my Australian character. They don't understand that we go down fighting." Tuesday's interview with Father Gore gave the impression that the deportation hearing is a new strategy of the government to get away from the crimithat some of the popula- nal proceedings and to tions of Central America establish that he is now a public nuisance and ought have undergone." to be deported. "The deaths of tens of "The only thing in my thousands of people. have favour is that there is no to those who are suffering last Sunday's Angelus talk. increased the measure of plane to Australia on Wedbecause of the Cross of Pope John Paul said the suffering, not only of indi- nesday night. but I may be Christ, our thoughts, our 40-day lenten period viduals, but of many fami- sent back to Australia by solidarity, our ministry "especially suited" for a lies and entire regions," he the weekend," he said philosophically. must be directed especially Central American visit added. toward the people of Cen- "because of the sorrowful • Continued page 2 tral America," he said at experiences in recent years • Continued page 11
Pope in Central America V ATICAN CITY — Just before Pope John Paul set out last Tuesday on his eight day trip to Central A merica he described his journey as a Lenten pilgrimage to "suffering peoples". "If in the period of lent we have to be especially close
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