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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?”
23,269 sermon illustrations through the Liberation Theology lens
10/31 (1923): The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
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
2/12 (1818): Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
2/14 (1929): Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
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.
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.
11/11 (1918): Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
7/20 (1960): The Polaris missile is successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.
Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.