Word: churches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most of her life, Pam Nolan, 45, found herself in a cold war with God. Her parents, disaffected Roman Catholics, left the church when she was 18, taking her with them. But more than a decade later, after the birth of her daughter, she made a slow creep back to religion, first as a Unitarian and then as a Methodist. But still her soul kept its distance. Then last year her church went on a retreat at the Abbey of the Genesee, a monastery in upstate New York. During a discussion, when a monk (and a recovering alcoholic), repeatedly said...
...President in the cathedral last Friday, the small coffins in front of them were not those of Nicholas II, his wife, three of his children and four faithful retainers. (The remains of two children, Alexei and Maria, have yet to be found.) In the view of the church, the boxes draped with the imperial flag contained the skeletons of anonymous victims of the political terror that engulfed Russia after the overthrow of autocracy in 1917. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexi II, who has been accused by former dissidents of collaboration with the Soviet-era KGB, expresses doubts...
...Likhachev, 91, spoke on the phone with the President and urged him to attend. Yeltsin is reputed to be in awe of Likhachev, a specialist in early Russian literature and a survivor of one of the worst of the early Soviet political prisons, where in previous centuries the Orthodox Church sent its dissidents. Soon after the call, Yeltsin announced he would travel to St. Petersburg, and during the ceremony Likhachev stood just behind the President...
...There's a job here for every man, woman and baby at the breast," says Pastor Daniel Stack of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church...
...clear they were going to have to build a new church, and to do that for a lot of people costs a lot of money. My wife and I came to the conclusion we should do something major. It was a chance to give back to a community that's been good...