Information on individual denominations and ecumenical efforts is included. Church-sponsored organizations produced documents explaining contemporary realities, often with the aid of their missionaries, human rights groups and others in solidarity with the oppressed. The documentation provides yet another angle to address political issues and to understand the struggles of specific sectors of the population. The culture category contains works of literary and artistic expression along with the papers of groups organized for such objectives. Often these materials address the popular sectors and provide valuable resources for language and graphic presentations.
Themes tend toward the political and form yet another critique of national reality.
Comics generally appear within this section. Environment and Ecology Environment and ecology became topics of major concern in the late 1980s. The collection consists of 339 rolls of microfilm and is arranged by country and by subject, then chronologically internally. Not all countries will have materials for each topic. Researchers will find a complete list of the country's content at the beginning of the first roll pertaining to each country.