Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yugoslav poet, must be sensitive to this split down the middle of his language. He has written a novel whose conceit is that it is a dictionary of three immiscible languages, with three distinct alphabets, corresponding to the three major religions that have shaped the Western world: Greek (Christian), Arabic (Islam) and Hebrew (Judaism...
There are conflicting historical reports. Each dictionary claims that the Khazars converted to its faith, Christian, Islamic or Jewish, and fails to mention the names of the representatives of the other two faiths who also attempted to persuade the Khazars...
...nonetheless accepts the olive branch and brings most of his followers down from the mountain. Then culture shocks begin in earnest. A Jewish shoemaker arrives in the settlement, bearing strange tales of distant lands, the idea of one all-powerful God, and the methods of reading and writing. A Christian missionary appears. The women, tired of being routinely raped and brutalized, stage a revolution. Cybula, wearied by so much violence and change, pledges allegiance to Shmiercz, the god of death...
Launched last year on a farm in Clackamas County, Ore., the Ecclesia Athletic Association camp professed a wholesome purpose. Founder Eldridge J. Broussard Jr., once a basketball star at Pacific University, said Ecclesia, an outgrowth of the Watts Christian Center in Los Angeles, would bring ghetto children into the clean rural setting and train them through a disciplined program of athletics...
...continued his speech. As elsewhere during his four-day visit to France, John Paul strongly endorsed the European Community's moves toward greater economic and administrative integration by 1992. And he urged still more European unity -- reaching out to include East bloc nations -- on the basis of a shared Christian identity...