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God's preferential option for the poor and oppressed, with salvation as liberation from all forms of oppression.
Key question: “How does the Gospel liberate the oppressed and challenge unjust structures in society?”
25,092 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens
11/22 (1943): World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
3/17 (2000): Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere...
This becomes known as "The Miracle on the Hudson" as all 155 people on board were rescued.
3/17 (2004): Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
1/1 (1801): Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
11/22 (1989): NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-33, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.