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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?”
23,235 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens
1/20 (1961): John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into that office, and the first Roman Catholic.
1/1 (1914): The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
11/1 (1897): Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.
12/25 (2004): The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
7/20 (1960): The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
3/15 (1875): Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
9/2 (2023): India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.
9/2 (1963): CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
9/11 (1829): An expedition led by Isidro Barradas at Tampico, sent by the Spanish crown to retake Mexico, surrenders at the Battle of Tampico, marking the effective end of Spain's resistance to Mexico's campaign for independence.
The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day.
1/20 (1877): The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.