Hopes fade as search for submarine enters 9th day

Explosion signals 44 members would not be alive ‘ Use gender- neutral words for God’

Mar del Plata, Argentina, Nov. 24: Hopes diminished that the 44 crew members on a Argentine submarine missing for nine days would be found alive after evidence pointed to the possibility that it had exploded and because it only had a seven- day supply of oxygen.

Crew members’ relatives who had been waiting for news at the submarine’s base in the city of Mar del Plata started going home late on Thursday, while the Navy vowed to keep searching.

“At this point, the truth is I have no hope that they will come back,” Maria Villareal, mother of one crew member, told local television on Friday morning.

Some family members accused the Navy of putting their loved ones at Stockholm, Nov. 24: The Church of Sweden is urging its clergy to use genderneutral language when referring to the supreme deity, refraining from using terms like “Lord” and “He” in favour of the less specific “God.”

The move is one of several taken by the national unnecessary risk by sending them out in a more than 30- year- old vessel that they suspected was not properly maintained, an accusation the Navy has denied.

The submarine, called Evangelical Lutheran church in updating a 31year- old handbook setting out how services should be conducted in terms of language, liturgy, and other aspects.

The decision was taken Thursday at the end of an eight- day meeting of the church’s 251- member the San Juan, was launched in 1983 and underwent maintenance in 2008. The armed forces have had to face dwindling resources since the end of a military dictatorship in 1980s. decision- making body in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, and takes effect May 20 on the Christian holiday of Pentecost. The church has 6.1 million members in a country of 10 million. It is headed by a woman, Archbishop Antje Jackelen.