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Archbishop denounces Mugabe By Art Babych
Portrayed in the government-controlled Zimbabwean press as gay, a rapist and HIV-infected, Archbishop Ncube, trained by Jesuits in the former Rhodesia, is undeterred. e has received numerous death threats, had his phones tapped and his sermons monitored by government agents, but Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, refuses to back away from his criticisms of the country's president, Robert Mugabe. "I refuse to be silent," Archbishop Ncube, 58, told ambassadors, high commissioners, members of Parliament and interfaith leaders on Parliament Hill on Sept. 28. "My heart bleeds -- I suffer a lot -- when I see the lot of the common man in Zimbabwe," he said. Archbishop Ncube was in Canada as part of an international tour to speak out against the regime of Mugabe, 80, who has held power in Zimbabwe since 1979. "I'm annoyed and upset when someone uses their power to trample on the disadvantaged, on the poor," Archbishop Ncube said. Portrayed in the governmentcontrolled Zimbabwean press as homosexual, a rapist and HIVinfected, Archbishop Ncube, trained by Jesuits in the former Rhodesia, is undeterred. "I'm not one that's given to fighting and controversy," he said. "I love peace."
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Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, speaks to Canadian leaders on Parliament Hill on Sept. 28 in Ottawa. At left is David Kilgour, co-chair of the allparty Interfaith committee of the Canadian Parliament. The archbishop was in Canada as part of an international tour to speak out against the regime of Robert Photo: CNS Mugabe, who has held power in Zimbabwe since 1979. Until this year, Mugabe had portrayed the archbishop as mad and as a prelate who did not have
the support of his fellow clerics. But after Archbishop Ncube went abroad in May to complain about
problems in Zimbabwe -- including an unemployment rate of 70 percent, an inflation rate of 400
percent and the AIDS epidemic - Mugabe called him an "unholy Continued page 10
Tea before pilgrims depart
Archbishop's Letter
rchbishop Hickey recently had afternoon tea with a group of West Australian pilgrims who will accompany him to the World Eucharistic
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Congress in Guadalajara Mexico. The group will fly out of Perth on October 9 and meet with pilgrims from NSW, Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania in Sydney.
A total of 40 pilgrims are expected to accompany the Archbishop. The Archbishop will address the Congress on behalf of the people of Oceania on October 11.
Fearful vision Paul Gray reviewed Pages 8&9
121 children... and counting Archbishop Hickey, at rear, with pilgrims assembled in the dining room of the Cathedral Presbytery recently.
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