Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to Senja captain Sigurd Kleiven, the Soviet ship was steaming at about 18 knots in an area where Norwegian maritime officials say no more than 3 to 5 knots is advisable at this time of year. Said Bjorn Sorensen, a Lutheran parish priest on Spitsbergen, who led a church service for some passengers immediately after their rescue: "Nobody who prayed today can accuse God of having neglected his prayer...
...other cases in which decisions are pending includes an important church-state dispute from Pittsburgh focusing on holiday displays of a Christmas Nativity scene and a Hanukkah menorah at government buildings...
...pyramid of funeral wreaths lay beside the wooden coffins in Heroes' Square. There, last week, more than 200,000 mourners gathered in downtown Budapest to bury the Stalinist ghost in Hungarian history. Church bells tolled, and the people sang the Szozat, the emotionally charged hymn of the nation's repeated triumphs over foreign domination...
...Jerry Falwell zoomed into the right lane of national politics, the Moral Majority is being shut down. Come August, the organization, whose gospel blended Fundamentalist theology and ultra-conservative politics, will close its Washington office. Falwell will devote himself to two Lynchburg, Va., enterprises, the Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University. Ironically, Falwell made the announcement in a city that symbolizes the sins the Moral Majority inveighed against: Las Vegas...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...