Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform-minded Mikhail Gorbachev, Budapest endorsed vitriolic attacks on the Ceausescu regime in the semi-official press. In January the Hungarian government legalized the status of the refugees already spilling across the border; two months later parliament voted $6 million to pay for resettlement programs in cooperation with church groups and the Hungarian Red Cross...
Those words, to which Cardenas appended a signature every bit as baroque as the facade of the town's main church, embodied the new vigor of Mexico's leftist parties and the hunger for change that holds both right and left in its thrall. Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in the July 6 election that will choose the country's leader for the next six years, is certain to prevail. But the P.R.I.'s 59-year monopoly of political power is being challenged as never before, by Cardenas and also...
Liberal Protestants have long been among the most ardent supporters of a woman's right to abortion. Consider the Rev. Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church. In 1967, more than five years before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that prohibited abortions, the Baptist pastor organized a referral and counseling service for women seeking the then illegal procedure. Moody was a minister in the American Baptist Convention, a confederation of congregations that was adopting its own high-profile prochoice position. In 1968 the denomination officially sanctioned abortions during the first three months of pregnancy...
Next month the policymaking General Convention of the Episcopal Church (2.7 million members) will consider a resolution that decries casual abortions and their high numbers, now put at 1.5 million a year, while retaining a "moral option for termination of pregnancy" in some extreme circumstances, such as rape and incest. Two weeks ago, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with 3 million members, called for a task force to review its strong, 18-year-old prochoice position. And last May the General Conference of the 9.3 million- member United Methodist Church officially moderated the church's prochoice position. The denomination continues...
...Broederbond finally showed him the answer. "I had to conform," he recalls. "I had to toe the line." When he finally quit, "it was almost like committing social suicide. There were people who suddenly stopped being my friends." In his lectures at Stellenbosch, Smith began challenging the church's support of apartheid. Afrikaner students accused him of preaching integration. "Teach theory, not conclusions," his superiors warned him. When Smith joined in public protests against the government's bulldozing of squatter shacks in Capetown, he was called before a church commission to justify his action. It was then that...