Pope Urges Africans to Abandon Witchcraft
<i> Associated Press</i>
MWANZA, Tanzania —
Pope John Paul II urged Africa’s Roman Catholics Tuesday to abandon the “unspeakable crime” of witchcraft, a practice that threatens the church’s foundations on the continent.
In his homily at an outdoor Mass on the shores of Lake Victoria, the Pope also spoke out against abortion, saying the “dignity of every human person from the moment of conception until natural death” must be respected. His sermon was delivered on the fourth day of his seventh visit to Africa.
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