Word: christs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conversion, compromise and comprehension were the types of unification outlined by Fr. Weigel. He said that he and the Roman Catholic Church preferred conversion, by which "all the 250 to 300 Christian churches would adopt one as the real church of Christ...
...week break from prayer meetings on his Down Under "Crusade for Christ," Evangelist Billy Graham went out for a dip in the Pacific surf at Broad-beach, Australia. Later, tanned and rested, he flew off to New Zealand, stirred 3,000 welcomers with a message of hope: "If Christians around the world unite in prayer, we could avert war. We don't have anything in common racially or politically. One common denominator we do have is spiritual...
Sacred to Three. What the scholars found almost passed belief. There were 3,000 manuscripts, many illuminated. In the apse of the basilica there was a 6th century Transfiguration of Christ, 20 feet across, one of the earliest, most splendid, and best preserved of all Byzantine mosaics. There were more than 2,000 ancient icons, by far the world's largest and also greatest collection...
...Christ cursed a fig tree, and in a matter of hours, says the Gospel of Mark (11:20), it was "dried up from the roots." The Rev. Franklin Loehr and his Religious Research Foundation in Los Angeles do not claim such dramatic results, but they are off to a flying start, as reported in a new book (Doubleday; $3.50) titled The Power of Prayer on Plants...
Whatever they may do or leave undone about their Negro brethren, most U.S. churches hold that all men are equal before God. One notable exception: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Book of Mormon teaches that the colored races are descendants of the evil children of Laman and Lemuel, who impiously warred against the good children of Nephi and received their pigmented skin as punishment. Last week a Utah State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights drew on this Mormon scripture in a scathing report on the state of the tiny nonwhite minority...