Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is co-sponoring the concert with the city of Cambridge and St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church. University officials estimate that between 11 and 12 thousand people will attend the show and that the proceeds will total around...
Last week Prophet, 50, who is also known as Guru Ma, and her husband Ed Francis, 39, appeared before a grand jury investigating alleged church involvement in illegal arms gathering. Prophet denies any wrongdoing, but if evidence implicates the two, they will face possible jail sentences and the crumbling of their empire. Says Park County commissioner Larry Lovely: "I think their credibility is slipping, and it's time to get this out in the open...
Prophet took matters into her own hands by inviting all her faithful, who may number some 30,000 worldwide, to move to Montana and escape the coming doom. Followers have begun to converge on the region and lease homes in a church-owned subdivision. At the main headquarters, dubbed the "inner retreat," the group is constructing a system of tubular underground shelters for 756 people. The guns, according to former members, are meant to defend the 600 staffers against a Communist invasion. Former bodyguard Ken Paolini charges that members are being told, "If we come under attack...
...many Oregonians stand squarely in the conservation camp. Says George Atiyeh, a former logger who became an ardent environmentalist: "The forest is my church. No one has the right to defile it, anymore than I would have the right to desecrate anyone else's church. When you get down to the last of anything -- whales, trees, whatever it is -- then you don't have the right to exploit them anymore...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...