Word: anglican
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...Anglican lay associate, Waite was drawn to the church, he has said, for "its passionate coolness, its mixture of authority and freedom." The son of a policeman, he grew up in the northwestern English village of Styal. He took a degree at a church college and headed to Uganda in 1968 as an adviser to the local archbishop. He and his wife Frances, who have three daughters and a son, were once held at gunpoint during a mass expulsion of foreigners following Idi Amin Dada's takeover in 1971. After working in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican...
...Mandela's enforced absence, other leaders spoke out for the country's blacks. Most prominent among them was Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of Johannesburg, the 1984 Nobel laureate, who took an important role in the drive to control the savagery of some of the violence. In July he saved the life of a black man suspected of being a police informant, after an angry mob had seized the man, set his car ablaze and tried to throw him into the flames. Tutu scolded a crowd of 30,000, threatening to "pack up and leave this beautiful country that I love...
...They don't like you," Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu told demonstrators outside the South African embassy in Washington. "They say you are Communist inspired. That means you are effective." The Nobel Peace prizewinner was starting a three-week, coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. to raise money, and it was only natural that he should join the demo, which has been going on intermittently for more than a year and on this day featured the singing of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. The rally left Tutu in obvious good spirits. "We will be free. There...
...average IQ." Parents tend to retreat a little once their child reaches high school, though subject choices in the senior years can fire them up again. "It's often dads who will be absolutely determined that their daughter do (advanced) maths," says Vicki Waters, principal of St. Margaret's Anglican Girls School in Brisbane. When staff know that a subject will be beyond a girl's capability, "We do strongly counsel the parents as to what we believe is the best option for their daughter...
...week’s papal pronouncement is a problem because it attempts to fuse these two separate debates, by combining the issue of civil same-sex marriage into the parallel religious debate. Religious denominations around the world have struggled with the question of same-sex marriage—the Anglican Church in Canada has nearly split over the issue—and just as it is not the state’s place to interfere with these religions’ decisions to recognize (or not to recognize) same-sex marriage, it is not religion’s place to interfere...