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Still, it happens a lot. For years, the U.S.-based Southern Baptists took a two-track approach. One group worked through the government to place Christian workers. A more secretive division burrowed underground, with missionaries posing as teachers, doctors or business executives. These covert missionaries?many were married couples?sometimes focused on acquiring a single convert. That convert would take communion in the couple's kitchen and receive baptism in the bathroom. At that point, the apartment could be considered a church and the couple could return to the U.S. and announce that they had established an underground church...
...different set of beliefs, that is widely considered a terrible insult. The Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish organizations denounce any efforts to convert Jews to Christianity. Mainstream Christian organizations avoid conversion campaigns and declare they are pleased for Jews to remain Jews. When the Southern Baptist Convention issued a prayer for conversion of Jews a couple of years ago, the A.D.L. called it "an act of theological arrogance," among other names...
...Weintraub. On Weintraub's last visit to Camp David, in 1992, he and Bush senior were chatting about how vulnerable First Friends are. They called to warn Thomason that he would be sued, slandered and vilified--and have no platform from which to respond. Thomason, the son of a Baptist deacon, couldn't imagine that happening to an unflashy guy like...
...This whole thing is a religious-liberty nightmare," said the Rev. C. Weldon Gaddy, a Baptist minister and the executive director of the Interfaith Alliance. "You can't have federal funds supporting sectarian proselytizing," he told the Boston Globe. Critics who share the Rev. Gaddy's point of view worry that despite the President's assurances Monday that the funding will not "go to support the religious activities of any group," the very nature of faith-based groups means their clients will be subject to sectarian influences. What if, they ask, someone needed help getting out of an abusive relationship...
Seble W. Argaw, director of the Adbar Ethiopian Women's Alliance, began her fledgling organization only seven years ago--and it is still run out of a basement room in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...