Word: churches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aftermath of a shooting spree by a World Church of the Creator member, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said last week he is no longer willing to represent the organization's leader, Matthew F. Hale, in his quest for bar membership...
...with the German, French, British and Italian foreign ministers in New York City last week to plot how each country might exploit its ties with dissident elements in Serbia. She asked Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini, for example, to place a phone call to the Vatican. The Serbian Orthodox Church last month demanded that Milosevic step down and instructed its priests to preach from the pulpit this past Sunday that Serbian forces are responsible for the atrocities in Kosovo. Washington wants Pope John Paul II, who helped engineer the toppling of Poland's communist regime, to join in taking...
...hurly-burly of the Biennale, Hamilton's meditative rooms are like church pews amid the roar of Grand Central Terminal. The opening crowds jostled inside the pavilion, drowning the whispering voice, wrecking the peaceful atmosphere. How could divinity alight at rush hour...
...they profess no satanism at all. Their paganism is drawn from pre-Christian European tribal religions that invoke spirits in nature and celebrate the seasons. They do not sacrifice animals or cast evil spells. Ron and Marie Smith, recently retired Army colonels, became Wiccans after having tried the Episcopal Church and Seventh-Day Adventism. "I was raised in the country, and in church I always felt enclosed," says Ron, 53, who is now a registered nurse, as is his wife. "I feel close to God in nature." Ron and Marie say they have paid a price for their beliefs...
...Killeen, Christians howl in protest. "We believe they are satanic and that they do not deserve to have any place at Fort Hood," says the Rev. Jack Harvey of the local Tabernacle Baptist Church, which sponsored a letter-writing campaign against the Wiccans. "Eighty percent of my congregation is military, and they are appalled...