Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delegation visited selected Russian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist and Pentecostal congregations in 14 cities across the country, and then expressed surprise that there was such freedom of worship...
...infractions were to be punished by days in a new jail cell. It was tiny, only 24 sq. ft., but then so were its prospective inmates, boys from five to 17. The compound in Walterboro, S.C., is not a prison but a Dickensian boarding school called the New Bethany Baptist Church Home for Boys. Police raided the place last week. Said Prosecutor Randolph Murdaugh: "I've never seen kids beaten as badly as they were beaten by those allegedly Christian people." School Superintendent Olin King and two employees were charged with child neglect and, for keeping...
...campus of the largely black University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the town of Princess Anne, in the tiny Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oxon Hill, Md., later in Texas at a San Antonio barrio and a West Dallas project, and on Friday night in the Mount Canaan Baptist Church in Shreveport, La. To dramatize his appeal to the poor, Jackson has taken to sleeping some nights in their homes rather than in hotels. Last Monday he stayed with William Jarrard, an unemployed white Baltimorean who bears an ironic resemblance to Archie Bunker; Wednesday in the San Antonio home...
...congregation of The Old Cambridge Baptist Church on Mass. Ave. is attempting to provide a sanctuary to one or more refugees willing to publicly relate their first-hand experiences in Central America, said Susan Wetherall, a member of the church's Sanctuary Committee. Through its sanctuary efforts, the church group hopes to express its opposition to United States military involvement in Central America, said Jean Chandler, another member of the Sanctuary Committee...
...crucifixion in Memphis. In New York this week we began to roll the stone away. The crucifixion of April 1968 will become the resurrection of April 1984." Supporters sometimes come close to deifying Jackson too. The Rev. Calvin Butts introduced the candidate to the congregation of the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem by crying: "Jesse Jackson is the son of God! He will set the devil running away...