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...SENTENCED. MICHAEL LAU, 42, ex-priest convicted of molesting a 15-year-old altar boy, to 41/2 years in prison; in Hong Kong. Lau is one of eight current or former priests of Hong Kong's Roman Catholic Church accused of pedophilia, and he was defrocked in 1995 after an in-house investigation found him guilty. It is the first time a cleric has been jailed for sex crimes in the territory...
With seven lighted candles burning on the altar of Memorial Church yesterday evening, University President Lawrence H. Summers and about 70 others honored the memories of the seven astronauts who died when the space shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrated over Texas Saturday morning...
...time when Big Business and government agencies worship at the altar of money and power, these women give us a reason to hope. JOAN C. BORGATTI Natick, Mass...
...sparse, consisting only of a small altar and microphones. The cast wears minimalist modern clothing: jeans and t-shirts, or business suits...
Even the very young are being led into religious instruction through play. At St. Simon's Episcopal Church in Conyers, Ga., toddlers have their own altar, at which they can practice setting up for church services with small candles, prayer books and Bibles. In a Bible lesson on Creation, they played with sand to represent God's earth and crawled through a tent to touch the "heavens" painted on its ceiling. Says Nicole Botkin, the church's Christian-education supervisor: "Parents help children with development in motor skills and language during the first years, so why not teach spirituality...