Word: clergymen
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...propaganda barrage, emanating mostly from Russia and Eastern Europe, aimed at convincing Washington that Hanoi, like Barkis, was willing. At home, the echoes from this campaign could be heard in various appeals to the President to stop the bombing. They came from a group of 28 prominent clergymen, from 400 former Peace Corpsmen, from thousands of "peace fasters" in 200 cities who restricted themselves to diets of rice and liquids for three days...
...Clergymen have expressed concern that the Church is in danger of divorcing itself from political realities by adopting a black-and-white attitude to the war. Blanning warned that viewing the war as a purely moral issue would cut the Church off from responsible liberal protest...
...find himself confronted with spiritual drift in suburbia or explosive hatred in an urban ghetto-and every-where by growing skepticism about the value of religion. Last week the American Association of Theological Schools published a study that bluntly accused most Protestant seminaries of being ill-equipped to train clergymen for ministering to today's world...
...families have found it hard to adapt to the faster pace and higher rents in Stamford; some of their neighbors have been amused and confused by their slow Southern drawls. On the grounds that Stamford seems to have quite enough churches as it is, clergymen of other faiths question the need for the mission, but laymen are more open-minded. So far, there have been only two formal conversions, but Pounders happily reports that several others are "on the verge." What attracts converts is the activist zeal of the transplanted missionaries. Says High School Teacher Janet Saine, who joined...
...Washington, a group of 100 Negro clergymen declared that efforts to punish Powell had stirred a "sense of outrage" among the nation's 22 million Negroes, demanded "a thorough investigation of the practices of all committee chairmen and their members...