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...will be joining the Million Man March on Washington being organized by Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan for Oct. 16? Count out two of the nation's largest black religious denominations, the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., and the Progressive National Baptist Convention. Not ecumenical enough, they said, assailing Jesse Jackson's assertion--which Jackson later retracted--that the two denominations had endorsed the march...
...addition, the Southern Baptist Church was given an award for compiling figures on how many people in different areas in Alabama would go to hell, Abrahams said...
...vendors go to the newspaper's offices at 1151 Mass. Ave. in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church. They are initially given 10 issues to sell for one dollar each...
DIED. MARCUS CHENAULT JR., 44, convicted murderer of Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother Alberta; after a stroke; in Riverdale, Georgia. On a Sunday in June 1974, Chenault rose from the front pew of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church and fatally shot the 69-year-old Mrs. King and church deacon Edward Boykin. Condemned to death, he was resentenced to life imprisonment, in part because the King family opposes capital punishment...
...Northern Baptist participating in the Southern Baptist Convention, I rejoiced greatly at the resolution against racism because it was not only about the past but also about the future. It pledged to "eradicate racism in all its forms from the Southern Baptist life and ministry.'' It is unfortunate that you did not quote one word from the resolution. DENTON LOTZ, GENERAL SECRETARY Baptist World Alliance McLean, Virginia...