Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranians had arrived in Queens after being imprisoned for a total of ten days following their arrest for disorderly conduct during a violent demonstration in Washington. They were allowed to select lawyers and to meet with a Muslim clergyman. And because it was Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that imposes fasting during the day, prison authorities established a special dining schedule, serving a meal just before sunrise and another after sunset. Even so, the prisoners went on a hunger strike and some eventually even had to be force...
...Class of 1901, had had to go to chapel every morning. President Eliot read the Bible lessons in those days. By the time of the November hour exams I was so busy studying (and worrying that I wouldn't make it) that I forgot about becoming a clergyman. President Lowell didn't miss me, I know, because I used to meet him and his small dog walking through the Yard and he never even raised his stooped head to speak...
...bishop's English secretary, Jean Waddell, remained behind, and on May 1 a team of gunmen entered her apartment in search of another Anglican clergyman. First they began to strangle her, then fired two shots into her chest. She is still in serious condition. Only a week later, the bishop's son Bahrain, 24, was murdered with shots in the head and chest...
...clergyman I was dismayed to read "Born Again at the Ballot Box." This kind of politicizing of the Word is dangerous and fundamentally unChristian. The Gospel calls us to inner transformation, not external coercion. This yearning for simplistic philosophies of life is also an affliction of the left...
...other commodities to the black market, where they sell for many times the official price. Coffee, Uganda's biggest cash crop, is smuggled into neighboring Burundi, which last year exported more than twice the quantity of coffee beans it harvested in its own fields. Says a Ugandan clergyman: "I don't know if our people will ever be honest again...