Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made a fruitless attempt to acquire converts in Burma during the 16th century, but Christianity did not really gain a foothold until 1722, when two Barnabite priests from Italy started preaching in Ava and Pegu. The first Protestant missionaries landed in 1807. Six years later came the great American Baptist Adoniran Judson, "the Apostle of Burma." Born in Massachusetts, he spent 37 years in Burma-including 17 months in prison, part of the time in shackles, during the country's 1824-26 war with Britain. It was Judson who first translated the Bible into Burmese. Relatively unsuccessful in converting...
...told that she had "neglected to fulfill the guest's obligation-which is to know when to go home." Remembering that the churches flourished during the Japanese occupation of Burma in World War II, older missionaries are confident that Christianity's convert leaders (among them 750 Baptist ministers) can carry on successfully. Younger clergymen, however, are not so sure, and the Roman Catholics are downright pessimistic. More than half of the Catholic clergy are foreign-born, including five of Burma's eight bishops, and the country has only one, poorly staffed, college-level seminary...
...SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOUR (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). "Of Picks, Shovels, and Words," a special on how the Bible has been used to guide archaeologists in locating and excavating ancient sites, filmed on location in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Israel...
...dudgeon than usual. "I couldn't believe my eyes," he told the House, "when I saw the Reverend Moyers, White House press secretary, gyrating halfway down on his knees, doing the watusi. The Reverend Moyers is another of those twinkle toes that inhabit the White House." At that, Baptist Bill Moyers, 31, inhibited himself into the depths of the West Wing and refused any comment on his performance at the Smithsonian Institution bene fit ball. White House Adviser Bob Kintner just burbled: "No matter what dance Bill does, it always comes out looking like a square dance anyhow...
...split between the churches; increasingly, they now express the churches' growth toward unity. In the chapel at the Jesuit University of Santa Clara recently, a Lutheran minister presided as a mixed congregation of Catholics and Protestants recited his church's version of vespers; a priest and a Baptist minister alternated reading the lessons. Last fall, in Boca Raton, Fla., an Anglican priest celebrated Mass before another interfaith group, using a new canon, or prayer of consecration, composed by a Dutch Jesuit...