Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Estella, using the three-syllable psuedonym to protect herself and her family in Central America, has been living in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church for two weeks to escape federal agents who want to deport her to El Salvador...
...Cambridge Baptist Church, located at 1151 Massachusetts Ave. will join a nationwide sanctuary movement of 170 churches that grant refuge to Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees who would otherwise be deported back to their countries by the federal government...
Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox, who is a member of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, said the current administration will not grant the refugees asylum in the United States for political reasons...
DIED. Martin Luther King Sr., 84, pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975, father of the slain civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, and in his own right a pioneer in improving race relations; of a heart attack; in Atlanta. A sharecropper's son, "Daddy King," as he was affectionately known, led several early local crusades for civil rights, including in 1936 an unprecedented-and dangerous-voting-rights march. During a life marked by personal tragedies, he lost, in addition to his namesake assassinated in 1968, another...
...campaign trail, Helms, a devout Southern Baptist, often hints at a divine mandate for his re-election...