Salvador Allende - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 09 May 2013 05:27:54 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Salvador Allende - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Church praised for work after 1973 Chile coup https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/05/10/church-praised-for-work-after-1973-chile-coup/ Thu, 09 May 2013 19:01:20 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=43921 Isabel Allende, a leading Latin American novelist, has praised the efforts of the Church in Chile on behalf of human rights following the 1973 overthrow of her cousin President Salvador Allende. She said Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, Archbishop of Santiago from 1961 to 1983, "established an office inside the cathedral" to document cases of disappearance Read more

Church praised for work after 1973 Chile coup... Read more]]> Isabel Allende, a leading Latin American novelist, has praised the efforts of the Church in Chile on behalf of human rights following the 1973 overthrow of her cousin President Salvador Allende.

She said Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, Archbishop of Santiago from 1961 to 1983, "established an office inside the cathedral" to document cases of disappearance and torture.

While some say that the Church could have done more, "many priests and nuns were imprisoned and tortured," she said. "Some of them were deported, others were sent into remote places in the country."

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