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1999
Number 34
Serving Catholics
in
Western North Carolina
in
the Diocese of Charlotte
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Soldiers
Increased support for church
freed
communication efforts urged ...Page
3
Families say factors
faith,
in
prayer
release
From By
the Cover beatifies
Padre Pio
...Page
euthanasia principle
16
Local News LIMEX program promotes opportunity ...Page
14
Billboard
displays pro-life
a
rights activist, negotiated their
freedom as the leader of an interfaith delegation that traveled to Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital. The delegation included Jesuit Father Raymond Helmick, who teaches at Boston College, and the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, general secretary of the National Council of Churches, and other religious leaders. "It's a big day for me, for us," Vivian Ramirez told reporters outside her home shortly after receiving news of the imminent release of the hos-
message ...Page
15
Every Week & Columns ...Pages
4-5
tages.
Entertainment
"Little
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—
Macedonian border. Rev. Jackson, civil
Editorials
TORRES
government, say family members of one of the soldiers. "I felt overwhelmed with joy when I found out (Andrew) was being released," said Frank Jasso, uncle of Staff Sgt. Andrew A. Ramirez, 24, of Los Angeles. "I feel very good and very happy about it. It was an answer to our prayers," he told The Tidings, newspaper of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Ramirez, Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Stone, 25, of Smiths Creek, Mich., and Spc. Steven M. Gonzales, 22, of Huntsville, Texas, were released May 2 into the custody of the Rev. Jesse Jackson after 32 days of captivity in war-torn Yugoslavia. The soldiers were reunited with family members in Landstuhl, Germany, on May 3. The GIs were captured March 31 while on patrol near the Yugoslav-
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Church stands on
variety,
L.
News Service LOS ANGELES (CNS) Faith, prayer and family unity figured into the safe release of the three GIs held captive for 32 days by the Belgrade
Pope
...Page
MARIA
Catholic
Andy and
the other
diers will be released to us
10-11
.sol-
tomorrow.
I'm very happy," she said. "I've called family, I've called everybody to
tell
them (Andrew's)
all right."
Prior to her departure for Germany she thanked Rev. Jackson "for
Happy Mother's Day! "Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."
my
Photo by Joann S. Keane
Hail Mary, full of grace May is traditionally referred to as the month of Mary. Throughout the world, Mary is depicted in many ways. Here, her image is interpreted in stained-glass in the Vatican Museum. Mother's Day is May 9.
Pope Paul VI
See
a tribute TO MARY,
page
bringing
him
my
son home," and called
a "lifesaver."
According to Jasso, Vivian Ramirez traveled to Germany with Andrew's father, Andy Ramirez, and Andrew's older siblings, Nadine and
9 See
soldiers FREED,
page
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