Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Greedy Banyas. The entire region lay open to the Chinese as far as Tezpur on the Brahmaputra, 100 miles from Towang. Indian planters who had displayed unruffled British calm began shipping their families south. Forty-five U.S. Baptist missionaries in eastern Assam began to pull out, turning over mission schools and hospitals to Indian assistants. Some imported food was in short supply, and India's banyas (village shopkeepers) took advantage of the situation to boost prices. The evidence of the Chinese advance came, oddly enough, from transistor radios. At first it was possible to tune in on Indian army...
...Although Dr. Joseph Jackson, president of the Negro National Baptist Convention U.S.A., Inc., accepted the personal invitation Pope John extended during an audience last year, the Baptist World Alliance decided not to send official observers...
Rabbi Unger's congregations usually call themselves Progressive rather than Reform: but the Orthodox rabbinate considers any liberal Judaism a divisive rather than a complementary force, and looks more kindly on Baptist missionaries. Says Minister of Religious Affairs Zerah Wahrhaftig: "Our spiritual mainstays must be maintained in unadulterated form." Replies Unger: "The old generation had Zionism and the establishment of a Jewish state as their ideal. But to the younger generation, Israel is a fact. They are a generation in search of something. Liberal Judaism can channel that search in a purposeful and meaningful manner...
...befits a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King has often taken as his text the words from the Sermon on the Mount: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." But in the minds of Dr. King and the Southern Negro these words have become more than ethical commands; they are the core of a philosophy of nonviolent protest which has enabled the Negro to fight for dignity and the rights of first-class citizenship with a creative power and grace...
Died. Charles Francis Potter, 76, founder of the First Humanist Society of New York, a onetime Baptist minister who believed that the true savior was man instead of God. crusaded nationwide for birth control and euthanasia; of cancer; in Manhattan...