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Article: A holy but frail alliance

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September 5, 1994
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THE UNITED Nations International Conference on Population and Development, which opens in Cairo today, has brought the Vatican and a number of Islamic leaders together in what some are labelling a "holy alliance". Their supposed common enemy encompasses family planning, artificial birth control, abortion, confidential sexual advice to teenagers and vague phrases referring to the "empowerment" of women.

Last week the Pope's spokesman acknowledged only "a presumed alliance between the Vatican and Islam". In any case, such an "alliance" can only be temporary. It rests upon the Vatican's extraordinary diplomatic effort to marshal support for its stance and upon the desire of individual Islamic ...

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