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...they are seductive nonetheless. In Oakland two weeks ago, many were shocked when the body of a notorious local drug lord, Felix Mitchell, was carried by a gold-and-black hearse, drawn by two bay horses, followed by a long line of Rolls-Royces and luxury cars. Inside the Baptist church where Mitchell lay in his bronze coffin with glittering rings on his fingers, a sound track played Sade's pop hit, Smooth Operator. Mitchell, 32, had been stabbed to death in Leavenworth penitentiary while serving a life sentence for drug-trafficking conspiracy. But in the faces of young people...
...went to a predominantly white prep school in Pennsylvania, then studied English at Morehouse College. Lewis was one of ten children born to a rural sharecropper. He grew up wanting to be a minister -- he used to preach funerals for the chickens on the farm -- and attended a Baptist seminary. Bond and Lewis met in 1960 when as students they joined the fledgling civil rights movement, and they were among the founders of SNCC. Lewis became chairman and led the marches; Bond was the communications director who stayed back at headquarters...
...short man in a starched white shirt who now walks slowly and with a cane, Desyr protested his innocence over and over, producing a thin black Bible from his pocket and proclaiming somewhat incoherently in awkward French, "I am a good Christian. I am a Protestant. I am a Baptist...
...arrested for the June break-in at the offices of the Central America groups housed in the basement of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church have admitted their guilt, staff members of the Central America Solidarity Association (CASA) said yesterday...
...Rumanian prisons, contends that the First Lady has launched a determined campaign against religion. Father Calciu says more than 60 Orthodox churches have been demolished since 1977 as part of a drive to renovate urban centers by replacing architectural treasures and other traditional structures with monumental government buildings. Many Baptist churches and several Jewish synagogues have been razed...