Word: christian
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Perhaps the most significant point in the resurgence of the Islamic faith is the corresponding decline in the Christian religions. While leaders of Western churches have pandered to the apparent wishes of a potential membership among its youth, Islam continues to demand strict adherence to its rigorous codes...
...both explained as an attack on Rome's Communist municipal administration. Whoever did the deed, the blast was only part of a surge in mayhem that has paralleled the campaigning for the June election that is to produce Italy's 42nd postFascist government. Since early April, after Christian Democratic Premier Giulio Andreotti's attempt to form another Cabinet was stillborn because the Communists refused to support it, Italy has been racked by new violence...
...teams of the far-left Red Brigades have killed a member of the DIGOS police intelligence unit in Milan, "kneecapped" a TV news editor in Turin and similarly wounded a local Christian Democrat official in Genoa. Bombs have demolished a Milan police station and two Rome offices of the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement. Then there has been the re-emergence of the Autonomisti, a semi-clandestine amalgam of Marxist student organizations...
...Autonomisti claimed that the police roundup of their members was orchestrated by Premier Andreotti's Christian Democrats to attract the law-and-order vote in the election. But the Communists, who have been anxious to dissociate themselves from Italy's nonstop terrorism, took a tough line against both the detained Autonomisti and reckless intellectuals in general. Ugo Pecchioli, a party spokesman, declared that responsibility for Italy's appalling level of terrorism-the toll already this year is 15 dead and 85 injured-lay not only with the bombers and assassins but also "with those who for years...
...trial in a Swiss federal criminal court last week, wearing a faded orange-pink robe and sandals, was a slender Indian who called himself Swami Omkarananda, a self-proclaimed teacher of mankind and head guru of a "Hindu-Christian" sect known as the Divine Light Center. The charges against the 49-year-old swami and what the prosecution called the hard core of his 80 followers ranged from theft and trespassing to attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. But most serious of all, the cultists had disturbed the peace of Winterthur...