Word: churches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peter S. Chandler, a Div School student who coordinated the fasters' weekend activities, said Memorial Church was chosen as the site for the vigil because "the church is a universal symbol of conscience...
...added that the church was selected over the Div School's chapel because divestment is a University-wide issue...
...Peter J. Gomes and Rev. Preston B. Hannibal, ministers at the church, could not be reached for comment...
...down 15 of them, which means that the academy's leaders must come up with new candidates, presumably including Sakharov this time. The Soviet Peace Committee, a goodwill and propaganda organization, was allotted five seats. Among those elected by the group was Patriarch Pimen, head of the Russian Orthodox Church...
...faiths are affected by a growing accommodation between church and state in the officially atheistic nation. Last year's 1,000th-anniversary celebrations greatly enhanced the privileges of the Russian Orthodox Church. This year the long-suffering Jewish community opened its first school for rabbis in 60 years, and Lithuania's Roman Catholics got their first full lineup of bishops in 40 years. A similar renewal is taking place among the 55 million Muslims, who constitute the world's fifth largest Islamic population (after Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India). By some estimates, ^ Muslims will make up one-fourth of Soviet...