The World - News from June 9, 1988
About 100 people, including 10 children, seized the headquarters of the Latin American Conference of Bishops in Bogota to protest violence in Colombia. A group spokesman said several people, including a priest and a nun, would be held hostage until the demonstrators got to talk with a government representative. The group, calling itself “Christians for Peace,” denounced human rights violations and demanded church participation in the search for solutions to a nationwide wave of violence. Police surrounded the building.
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