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...classes were wildly attended even though they were tough subjects," said Andre S. Bishop '70, a former student of Chapman's who is now the artistic director of the Lincoln Center in New York...
...historical significance," says Dr. Keith G. Allred, a Pforzheimer House tutor and assistant professor at the Kennedy School of Government who serves as bishop of the Cambridge Second Ward of LDS. "At the time of the church's founding all the believers packed up and moved west. This represents a return of the church to the Northeast and a growing presence of the church in this area that necessitated a new temple...
Beijing has paid lip service to the burgeoning spiritual movement by encouraging believers to join its state-supported Christian church. (The government sanctions five carefully monitored religious organizations.) In a prelude to the Millennium World Peace Summit in New York City last week, Fu Tieshan, Beijing's state-appointed bishop, maintained that "there is no religious persecution in China." Yet his statement came just days after the arrests of nearly 200 Christians. The raids also snared three American evangelists, who were deported...
...utmost to build bridges both to other Christian denominations and to non-Christian faiths has raised eyebrows. The bad news for non-Catholics came in "Dominus Iesus," a 36-page declaration by Pope John Paul II's doctrine chief, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, that will be sent to every Catholic bishop warning against the temptation to view other denominations as equals. "There exists a single Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church," writes Ratzinger. Churches that don't accept papal primacy are, he says, in "imperfect communion" with the church, and are "not Churches in the proper sense...
Germany is in mourning. Flags are flying at half-mast. "Germany is shaken, Germany is stunned," said Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder at an ecumenical service held at the World Expo in Hanover. "Our respect goes to the dead, our sympathy to the relatives." The bishop of Hildesheim, Josef Homeyer, who co-conducted the service, said, "Our hearts are heavy. The shock of the sudden might of death oppresses us. We lack words of consolation...