Word: clergymen
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...Clergymen warn about the implications of genetic engineering...
...Soviets were far from enthusiastic in their support for Khomeini in the months just before his 1979 overthrow of the Shah. The reason, as a Tudeh member now in jail puts it, was that "Moscow perceived the clergy as incorrigible reactionaries." Those fears were well founded. Right-wing clergymen routinely reviled the Soviets as godless Communists, while Khomeini opposed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But Moscow wooed Tehran by offering assistance against the nettlesome Mujahedin guerrillas. In response, the mullahs invited KGB agents to Iran to provide military and economic advice. Last year Moscow proposed a treaty of friendship...
...fiction. His photographs of alleged prison camps revealed nothing but Laotian terrain; his claims that he had heard of sighted prisoners were, he conceded, beyond empirical proof. Pressed for concrete evidence, the imperturbable Gritz finally replied, "I have the same evidence that might be presented to a convention of clergymen that God exists." After he stepped down, one witness after another demolished what little remained of his credibility...
...proliferation of manuals romanticizing death troubles social workers and doctors who are intent on preventing suicide among healthy people, as well as those clergymen who oppose suicide for any reason at all. The worst offender is France's Suicide: Operating Instructions, by Claude Guillon and Yves Le Bonniec, a pair of anarchists who, with ineffable Gallic logic, have equated the act of suicide with revolt against the established order. Their book, which explains how to forge doctors' prescriptions for lethal drugs, has attracted more than 100,000 French readers and has provoked denunciations by scores of physicians...
Because we are traditionalist Orthodox clergymen (belonging to that part of the Church of Greece which adheres to the Julian Calendar), we maintain the clerical dress (black cassock, uncut hair and beard) of the Orthodox clergy throughout Europe--even though our monastery, a dependency of a large Greek monastic house, is in the United States. It has been our view that geography should not compromise tradition, especially when one is in a country which champions religious freedom...