Understanding World Events and Trends - Plain Truth Staff - January 1986

Plain Truth Staff

Vatican's Political Activism * Ignorance to Blame in Child Deaths * Small Nations, Big Losses * Japan's Mountain of Debt * In 1985, the Vatican showed that it is a force to be reckoned with on the world's diplomatic fronts. On May 2 Argentina and Chile signed a Vatican-mediated pact ending a century-old, often bitter dispute over the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America. Pope John Paul II stepped into the dispute in 1979 at the request of the two predominantly Catholic South American rivals. The Vatican's diplomatic concerns, however, are not limited merely to impartial arbitration. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library