| Resolution Number: | 1997-B012 | |
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| Title: | Extend Greetings to Bishop Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor | |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred | |
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Resolved, That the 72nd General Convention send greetings and congratulations to Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of East Timor, in recognition of his receipt of the Nobel Prize for 1996 as well as his co-worker, Jose Ramos-Horta; and be it further
Resolved, That the Episcopal Church support the work of Bishop Belo toward a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, 1997 (New York: General Convention, 1998), p. 525. |
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