Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...okay working Sundays. Working nights makes for a long day. Sunday gives you another option," said periodical room librarian Christian C.Titlow, who is a student in the Graduate School ofArts and Sciences...
...with similar victories, Robertson's local organizers were able to attract Iowans who had not been politically involved. A year ago, a crude instruction sheet called the "Christian Political Action List" advised new activists to "hide your strengths" and "pretend to be interested" in general party business. Much of the missionary work was done in evangelical churches, particularly those with Pentecostal practices.* Typical was Debi Nuhn, a teacher who had come 250 miles with her husband Tom and other members of the Word of Life Christian Church. Like Robertson, she said, members of her charismatic congregation were "born-again...
...time or another," the CIA listed the late Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte among its "assets." Gemayel's Christian Militia received $10 million in covert aid. Duarte was more than a casual informant but was not fully controlled, the magazine says...
...Louisiana's electric chair. On death row he re-emerged as an exemplary citizen, teaching fellow inmates to read and write. With an old typewriter perched on his bunk, he batted out articles for prison ministries and corresponded with dozens of other prisoners who had heard his writings on Christian radio broadcasts...
Mswati is adamant about protecting the sanctity of Swazi tribal rituals. Three months ago the young King arrested the British leader of a fundamentalist Christian movement, the South African-based Rhema Gospel Church, and has kept him locked up ever since. The proselytizing foreigner, who is expected to appear in court this month, faces charges of sedition for daring to suggest that certain Swazi traditions, such as the reed-dance ceremony, might be "ungodly and immoral." As the people of Swaziland are learning, Fire Eyes does not take lightly any kind of disrespect...