eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 27 January 2003

Zimbabwe police stop six visiting Lutheran Aids and feeding projects

Geneva, 27 January (ENI)–Six people intending to visit famine relief and Aids projects being run in Zimbabwe under the auspices of the Lutheran World Federation have been detained at a hotel in central Zimbabwe because authorities suspect them of acting illegally as journalists, say church officials. The six people were apprehended in the mining town of Zvishavane, 400 kilometres south of Harare, at the weekend as police halted a planned tour of projects that were being highlighted ahead of the federation’s forthcoming global assembly in Canada in July, the Harare-based Daily News reported. [471 words, ENI-03-0031]

Key witness in trial over Guatemalan bishop’s murder is killed

Tegucigalpa (ENI). An important witness who testified in a trial for the murder of a Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop has himself been killed as have other witnesses in the past. The witness, Noe de Jesus Gomez, gave evidence in a 2001 trial over the brutal 1998 killing of Juan Gerardi, the auxiliary bishop of Guatemala City who was a prominent human rights advocate. [509 words, ENI-03-0030]

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