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TABLET Bushfire in the Balkans

A conflagration that could get out o f control

Our abuse of the Earth

Sean McDonagh’s hopes and fears for Rio

After the Gulag Zbigniew Nosowski reflects on the martyrs

Priests for tomorrow William Blum looks at Africa’s needs

Tell Sid What’s in a name, says Sydney Carter Dr Carey and Euro-ecumenism Kenya’s bishops in the front line A rose among the Belfast thorns The centurion: a poem by Les Murray

Sir John Simon’s broken heart