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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?”
23,251 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens
4/9 (1952): Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines
8/6 (1777): American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.
1/15 (1967): The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
10/31 (1923): The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
12/25 (1941): Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
1/1 (1834): Most of Germany forms the Zollverein customs union, the first such union between sovereign states.
11/11 (1965): Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
4/1 (1725): J. Bach's later Easter Oratorio in its first version is performed at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig on Easter Sunday.
4/9 (1860): On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the first known recording of an audible human voice.
5/1 (1844): Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
5/8 (1924): The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.