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Bishop's wife takes hunger strike to the pope
AFP, Aug. 20, 2001http://www.iol.co.za/ [Story no longer online? Read this]
Rome - The wife of controversial Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo went to St Peter's Square in a wheelchair on the fifth day of a hunger strike on Sunday and prayed to be reunited with her husband.
"She can no longer stand up and went to pray outside the Vatican Basilica in a wheelchair," said South Korean ambassador Yang Il-bae, who has been mediating between Milingo's Korean wife, Maria Sung, and the Vatican, which bans Catholic clergy from marrying. Sung launched a hunger strike on Tuesday to press demands to see her husband after the Vatican said Milingo had decided to leave her. (...) The couple married at a mass wedding ceremony conducted by Sun Myung Moon of the cult-like Unification Church in New York in May.- Sapa-AFP [...more...] [Need the full story? Read this]
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