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spreading the word of God I < Jesus, the master of the Church, did not teach
that doctrine.  The characteristic of his commandment is Charity: men must
love each one another. 1/ And according to St. Paul, charity does not harm
anybody, charity never does evil to anybody, does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil. 2/
The Portuguese behavior is the furthest thing from this spirit of
Christ and yet they still claim that they abide by the Christian maxims.
Our freedom fighters share more of the Christian spirit than the Portuguese
ever will.  The freedom fighters do not kill every Portuguese they find,
but those Portuguese who are armed against them.  But the Portuguese butcher
many innocents in the name of holy war and shell all our villages and arrest
nur people as they did last January when they arrested 100 Mozambicans just
for looking well dressed.
. /      It must be emphasized that there is no ihcompatability between
freedom for the people and Christianity for the people.* The Portuguese are
so shallow that their mode of reasoning is just too hard to grasp since
their arguments are almost always contrary to the United Nations Charter
and other proclamations which recognize human rights.  When asked to heed
the voices of self-determination at the United Nations and to arrange for a
peaceful transition to a peoples' government, they close their ears and
reply negatively.  If people cannot listen to reason, to- what then will
they listen? We all know the expression which says "where reasoning fails
force comes" and this is exactly what we Mozambicans are resorting to.
Pope John XXIII in his encyclical letter clearly specified the
position of the Church:  "Uur gaze looks towards all the continents, where
people are moving into;better times, and where'we see a reawakening of profound energies leading one to hope for acts of honest conscience for the
promotion of the real good of human society, so that this hope may be fulfilled in the most conforting manner - that is to say, with triumph of the
reign of truth, justice, peace and charity.  Lie ardently desire that all
our sons may form one heart and one soulu 3/ And in another encyclical
letter he affirmed certain aspects of true democracy: "Those who support
truth, justice and advance of each individual and each state da not refuse
liberty, da not put it in bonds, do not suppress it.  They have no need of
that way of acting0  For this reason a just state of prosperity among the
members of a state can never be arrived at by violence or by crushing their
minds and hearts."^/
1. St. John, 13,3^4
2- 1* Cor., 13, U   and 5.
3« Grata Recordatio, 1959.
k. Ad Petri Cathedram, part II, 1959.