Word: churches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crowd of mixed ages and races packed Memorial Church Friday afternoon to remember the life of Martin Luther King Jr., who would have been 60 years old this year...
...secret that John Paul II is a man of strong -- and staunchly conservative -- convictions. Nor is it surprising that he has sought to fill the Roman Catholic hierarchy with clerics who insist on strict obedience to church teachings. In recent months, however, many of the faithful have been alarmed by the Pope's determination to override the sentiments of local clergy in order to get his way. Angry liberals in Vienna and Chur, Switzerland, have even resorted to blocking cathedral entrances to protest the consecration of new, archconservative bishops...
...James Whyte, head of the Church of Scotland, spoke for a horrified world. At a memorial service in Lockerbie last week, he condemned last month's bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as an act of "human wickedness" and "cold and calculated evil." With Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and some 100 relatives of U.S. victims among the mourners, Whyte said those responsible must be brought to justice, but cautioned, "The uncovering of the truth will not be easy, and evidence that would stand up in a court of law may be hard to obtain...
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...
...Armenian representatives are "exhausted and sad from the earthquake," Welsh said. "For Armenians, who are really ebullient people they are really toned down." She said the delegation will visit a local Armenian church on Sunday to mark the last of the traditional 40 days of mourning for the quake's victims...