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...Marienkirche, in the eastern sector of Berlin, is a grave, 13th century church with the mien of a sanctuary and the promise of a mighty fortress. It stands behind the Iron Curtain of Christendom's enemy, and there are signs of struggle within and around it. Some of the choir boys who will sing its 16th century chorales in this troubled Eastertide wear the bright blue shirts of the Freie Deutsche Ju-gend, East Germany's Communist youth group. Last February, one of its clergy, Pastor Reinhold George, was arrested by Red security police a few yards from...
...With Christendom embroiled in the Fifth Crusade, A.D. 1221, heartening dis patches reached Pope Honorius III : "A new and mighty protector of Christianity has arisen. King David of India. . . has taken the field against the unbelievers." But the Vatican's information proved faulty; "King David" turned out to be Genghis Khan, and his Mongol empire was to spread terror on the flank of Eu rope for the next two centuries...
...mosaics in the Hagai Sophia--enough to give a clear idea of the style--have been uncovered. A panel of Christ receiving the supplication of his mother and John the Baptist is included. The works are said to have been fashioned when the church was the center of Eastern Christendom...
...words and stylft." The new Journal of George Fox (Cambridge University; $4.50), now available in the U.S., has also used bits of Fox's other diaries, to fill in periods of his life where the old journal was deficient. It is the best popular edition of one of Christendom's great spiritual autobiographies...
...manifesto of their own. "The history of mankind," it said, "is a history of repeated injuries . . . toward woman." The downtrodden of Seneca Falls resolved to turn woman's wrongs into Woman's Rights. Moreover, the same sort of female revolt was getting under way all over Christendom...