Word: christian
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...most important trials of the last several decades." So maintains Robert Skolrood, executive director of Televangelist Pat Robertson's conservative National Legal Foundation and chief counsel for the 624 plaintiffs, all Christian Evangelicals. Anthony Podesta, president of the liberal lobby People for the American Way (P.A.W.), which is providing the legal team for the defense, counters that the case is a "hoax perpetrated by people who don't want the 42 million schoolchildren in this country to learn about ideas these people disagree with -- everything from divorce to evolution." The two sides are clashing in a federal courtroom in Mobile...
...includes "a systematic familiarization with our own, Western tradition of learning: with the Classical and Jewish-Christian heritage, the facts of American and European history, the political organization of Western societies, the great works of Western art and literature, [and] the major achievements of the scientific disciplines," he says...
...letter writing effort was joined by a panel of speakers who addressed the rally at Widener. The first to speak was Mariam Ozernoy, a Russian emigree, who spoke on herrecent release from the Soviet Union. Her speechwas followed by a talk on Christian dissent in theUSSR by Nikita Moravsky, former attache to theAmerican Embassy in Moscow...
Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, said of the Archbishop's sermon, "I am completely delighted. If I were to give a sermon on that topic, that is exactly what I would have said...
...wounded since Sept. 8. The declared aim of the bombings, which have been claimed by the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (C.S.P.P.A.), is to force the release from prison of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 35, a pro-Palestinian Marxist with roots in Lebanon's Maronite Christian community. The leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (F.A.R.L.), a group that police say may be the same as the C.S.P.P.A., Abdallah is serving a four-year term on charges of possessing weapons and false identification. Last week the Chirac government recommended that Abdallah be tried on charges...