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Beyond Lynchburg, reaching into all 50 states, is Falwell's most controversial venture, Moral Majority, a lobbying and political-action group that claims 6.5 million members. Falwell started Moral Majority in 1979, thrusting the religious right into front-line politics. The way Falwell saw it, if liberal clergymen could march for civil rights, conservative Fundamentalists could wage political war on immorality. Moral Majority espoused an odd ecumenism that aligned Falwell on various issues with Catholics, Jews and Mormons, all scorned in the past by strict Fundamentalists...
...audience with a series of stunts, importing Christian karate experts to smash blocks of ice in front of the congregation and exhibiting the "world's tallest Christian," a 7-ft. 8-in. wrestler from the Midwest. Falwell desegregated his church in the mid-'60s but spoke out sharply against clergymen becoming involved in issues like civil rights...
...probability, though, the Americanization of Hispanics will be far more rapid and thorough than any Hispanicization of Anglo culture. Businessmen, Roman Catholic clergymen and politicians in Hispanic areas find it useful and sometimes essential to learn Spanish. But an Anglo lawyer in Coral Gables, Fla., who took the trouble to learn some limited Spanish now finds that most of his Hispanic clients prefer to speak to him in English. Says the lawyer: "America triumphs over these immigrants as it has over others." A survey of Midwestern Hispanic voters by the Midwest Voter Education Project probably is unrepresentative, since many Hispanics...
...that nation's emigration policy, some conservative members supported the move because they had been impressed by an unusual concession from the Communist regime. Rumania had agreed to import and distribute 20,000 Bibles supplied by churchmen in the West to members of its Hungarian Reformed Church. However, outraged clergymen and conservatives displayed proof in the Rayburn House Office Building last week that the Bibles had not been put to their intended use. Close inspection of a roll of toilet paper manufactured in a Rumanian factory and smuggled out of the country revealed the Hungarian words for God, Jeremiah...
Many West Germans welcomed V-E day as the end of a sometimes uncomfortable period of re-examining the Nazi past. The mood was perhaps most appropriately reflected in an ecumenical service in Cologne Cathedral attended by West German government leaders and clergymen from throughout Europe. Referring to the four decades since the cease-fire, Joseph Cardinal Hoffner, the Archbishop of Cologne, pointed out that in Scripture, "forty signifies a time of trial, of testing, of toil, of endurance and of reflection...