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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
6/19 (1990): The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
10/31 (1918): World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty.
4/9 (1937): The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
2/12 (1404): The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sofia performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen-Geist Spital in Vienna.
7/4 (2009): The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
10/12 (1945): The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
President Ronald Reagan declares the Space Shuttle to be operational.
5/1 (1978): Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
The majority of the garrison is massacred the next day.
1/1 (1985): The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
1/1 (1834): Most of Germany forms the Zollverein customs union, the first such union between sovereign states.
6/19 (1586): English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
12/25 (2004): The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
5/8 (1877): At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.
7/14 (1958): In the 14 July Revolution in Iraq, the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.