Word: clergywomen
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...airport when a column of trucks loaded with Honduran policemen careered across the runway to head it off. As police surrounded the aircraft, troops slithered down ropes from helicopters hovering overhead and flung themselves on the ground with rifles ready. The cause of their concern: the arrival of 40 clergywomen, the first planeload of 140 American and Canadian nuns and lay workers headed for a four-day prayerful protest against U.S. policy in Central America. The Honduran government barred the other 100 even before they left the U.S., calling them "subversives," but the Sandinista government in neighboring Nicaragua invited...
...Clergywomen tend to be employed as chaplains, in other special ministries or as parish assistants, rather than as chief pastors of local congregations. One exception is the United Methodist Church; there bishops, instead of local church boards, decide who gets hired where...
...long as they remain unmarried. They may lead religious services for children and teach Bible classes of girls; may perform work akin to that of U. S. social workers-welfare work in prisons, almshouses, pesthouses and refuges for the aged. They may not officiate at marriages, funerals, baptisms, deaths. Clergywomen's pay will be three-fourths that of clergymen...
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