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| | A Cry from Riobamba |
 | | A CRY FROM RIOBAMBA In his Fedora hat, Quichua garb and with absolute confidence, the indigenous Master of Ceremonies intervened during the discourse of one of many Latin American Bishops present in Riobamba, Ecuador for a hemispheric meeting of the churches, "Thank you, Monsenor, your time is up." The bishop stopped talking. |
 | | In August of 1976 in the wake of the Medellin Conference, the hemispheric churches met in Riobamba, Ecuador. |
 | | Riobamba, Ecuador, August/September, 1998 Hoping that the Ecuadoran government would not intervene as in 1976, the churches of Latin America convened in the Andes with a new component; macro-ecumenism. |
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