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The Preaching of Portuguese Colonialism and the Protest of the White Fathers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2019

Luiś B. Serapião
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Commenting on the work of Portuguese clerics outside Portugal, a former Minister of Overseas Territories referred to the government’s understanding that missionary work could not be separated from the high interest of the State. While Portuguese officials have long appreciated the support of the Church in Africa, the Church itself has been silent regarding the identity of interests between Portuguese colonial policy and church evangelization. This silence—sign of the acquiescence of Portuguese bishops to the colonial regime—led the White Fathers to speak-out, denouncing policies supported by the Church in Mozambique.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Spring 1972 , pp. 34 - 41
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1972 

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1 Professor Adriano Moreira quoted by Joaquim Antonia Aguiar in “Actualidades e perspectivas das missoes catolicas portuguesas ultramarinas,” Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa. Series II (See January 19701, p. 50.

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15 Letter of March 23, 1971, from the priests of Beira to the Archbishop of Lourenço Marques.

16 Sebastiao Soares de Resende, “Eloquentissima Licao de Natal,” Diario de Moçambique, December 25, 1961, p. 3.

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