The funerals have taken place for many of the 34 mine workers shot dead by a police at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa. Government officials attend some of the funerals. Lawyers on Friday threatened legal action on behalf of 270 minors who have been charged with the murder of their colleagues even though they were killed by the police. Forty-four people including two policemen were killed in violent protests over pain.
BBC news.
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A day after the death of one of Italy's most popular and controversial church figures Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, an interview has been published in which he strongly criticizes the Roman Catholic Church. The interview was with a fellow Jesuit priest. From Rome, David Willey.
意大利最富盛名,也最具有争议的教堂人物马蒂尼去世后第二天,他严厉批评罗马天主教的采访即被播出。采访围绕他和一位耶稣会牧师的对话。大卫·维利从罗马报道。
Cardinal Martini said the church was 200 years behind the times and Catholics lacked confidence in it. "The church is tired", he said. "Our culture has grown old. Our church is big and empty. And the church bureaucracy rises up. Our religious rites and the vestments we wear are pompous.” He urged the Catholic church to recognize its errors and embark on a radical path of change, beginning with the Pope and his bishops. He said unless the church adopts a more generous attitude towards divorced persons, it'll lose the allegiance of future generations.