Word: clergymen
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...said Sheldon, who has become a religious-right activist as head of the Traditional Values Coalition. He has plenty of company among clergymen -- even those who shun direct political involvement. Floyd Smith, pastor of West Virginia's Hedgesville Baptist Church, also rues his one Carter ballot: . "To vote for a person just because he's born again is a mistake I won't make a second time." Smith wants a President "who will fight for our rights" against pro-choice feminists, atheists, gay-rights activists and others who threaten his brand of morality. "We're getting it shoved...
Beginning in the 1830s, Christian missionaries thought they saw an opportunity to carry Western religion to millions of Chinese. American church members supported the missionary effort with their contributions, but the results fell well short of their hopes. Clergymen in China were the targets of repeated antiforeign campaigns, and during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, hundreds of missionaries and thousands of converts were killed...
Hardship dependencies, those in the National Guard or military reserves, clergymen and those studying for the clergy are all exempt from the draft...
George Bush has vowed that the gulf crisis would not be "another Vietnam," but in a way it already is. Everywhere you look, they're back: the hawks, the doves, the generals and Administration officials on the defensive, the clergymen and professors, the has-beens and wannabes on the offensive. Even the slogans echo across the years. ALL WE ARE SAYING, read a sign in front of the White House last week, IS GIVE SANCTIONS A CHANCE...
...Rome is willing to gamble that a stronger if smaller corps of clergymen will eventually generate more vocations. There is some evidence to support that: the total number of seminarians worldwide has jumped from 62,000 to more than 92,000 during John Paul II's 12-year papacy. That is still far from adequate. Moreover, new recruits do not outnumber the priests who retire or die each year, but the net loss was down to 313 last year. "Overall the trend is positive," reported Archbishop Pio Laghi, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education...