Word: church
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shock Avoided. On Sunday morning Eisenhower was up early, drove 25 miles to attend service at the United Presbyterian Church at Gettysburg. After the one-hour-25-minute service he tol.d the pastor (Robert A. MacAskill): "I offered to bring Mr. Khrushchev to church, but he declined. He said it would be a shock to his people...
...stubborn four-year fight against Britain, Greek Cypriots had two respected chiefs. For military leadership they looked to daring, irascible George Grivas, the Greek army colonel who led their guerrilla bands. For political and spiritual guidance they relied on black-bearded Archbishop Makarios, head of Cyprus' Greek Orthodox Church and ethnarch of Cyprus' Greeks. Last week, with establishment of an independent Cypriot Republic only five months away, Cyprus' two heroes were at daggers drawn...
Anticlericalism was for more than a century the prime tenet of the Liberal parties that flourished in Latin America; Liberals effectively broke the Roman Catholic Church's vast temporal powers. Not destroyed was a great religious hunger. Last week in Honduras, a Liberal President, Ramón Villeda Morales, was treating the republic to the greatest wave of Catholic revivalism that the tiny, primitive country (pop. 1,800,000) ever...
...Both dedications, inspired by two 17th century French saints, require Vatican approval, and entail a preparatory period by faithful Catholics of daily Mass and special instructions in church doctrine. Dedicated by their governments to the Sacred Heart: Ecuador (the first, in 1873), Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Peru, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Malta and the Philippines. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart: Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ireland, Belgium and Spain...
...could it be that piety is also needed for a boffo picture? Before the first scene was shot last week, cast and crew assembled at the re-created Alamo and listened to a special prayer recited by the Rev. Peter Rogers of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, San Antonio. "O Almighty God . . . today we ask thy blessing, thy help and thy protection, as once again history is relived in this production. We ask thee this so that the film, The Alamo, will not only be the world's outstanding production, but will also be a tribute...