Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prosecutor later subpoenaed the clergyman, John Mellish of the Margate Church of the Nazarene, and asked him to reveal what Sands might have told...
Rabbi Solomon Schiff, who directs prison chaplains for the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, argues that there is an "unbreakable bond" between clergyman and congregant An that is protected by the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom. Agrees fellow Rabbi Brett Goldstein: "While under biblical law I have the right to reveal information of a criminal nature when that information could prevent another crime, it is not an obligation. Religious questions are between me and my God, and not between me, my God and the state." Michael Fitzgerald, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, maintains that...
...special preacher. "We know what difficulties you faced in coming here, Billy Graham," said Piotr Konovalchik. "We rejoice that you are with us tonight." Many young women in the choir, clad in orange dresses and white headbands, wept along with him. As Graham quietly thanked Konovalchik, a clergyman who had come from Moscow strode to the pulpit to offer a prayer: "You shed your blood for Russia too, O Lord. We pray that a surge of revival may start in this house of ours...
Walter Tucker, a local dentist who has played a clergyman in The Lost Colony for the past six years, made it through a scene in which he lies supine and ill and then took it upon himself to explain his devotion to the production...
...raged, members of the minster staff worked together in the burning building to salvage tapestries, candlesticks, altar crosses and whole pews. Eventually the smoke and heat forced them to withdraw, and the south transept's entire roof "collapsed like a pack of dominoes," in the words of one clergyman. After three hours, firemen managed to bring the blaze under control. They also succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles of charred...