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Liberation Theology Participants at a meeting of ecclesiastical base communities in Brazil gather under a banner reading “Altar of Martyrs: Your Blood Nourishes Our Base Communities.” This 1986 meeting, eighteen years after the Medellín Conference, shows the lasting impact of liberation theology in Latin America. (© Bernard Bisson/Sygma/Corbis)