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Dates: during 1990-1999
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An area minister's efforts to set up a church for a congregation of about 200 Black Haitian worshippers in North Cambridge have resulted in a string of anonymous phone calls and bomb threats over the past four months, a church representative said yesterday.

Author: By Toyia R. Battle, | Title: Church Official Alleges Harassment | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

But St. Louis said yesterday that the threats and other incidents of harassment had convinced him that the neighborhood is opposed to the church's presence because of the racial makeup of the predominantly Black congregation.

Author: By Toyia R. Battle, | Title: Church Official Alleges Harassment | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

Residents of Harvey St. and the surrounding area, where St. Louis hopes to establish the church, opposed the church on the grounds that St. Louis' 200-strong congregation would cause parking problems and disturb residents.

Author: By Toyia R. Battle, | Title: Church Official Alleges Harassment | 12/11/1990 | See Source »

Reid's sermons are interspersed with traditional Pentecostal dancing and singing, while at one point in the Sunday service worshipers break up into cozy prayer circles. Bethel is an energetically activist congregation: last year it clothed and fed 18,000 people, and it operates programs for older people, teens, women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Strains On the Heart | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Congregation member Larry Little is convinced that churches like Bethel represent not only the best spiritual hope for American blacks, but perhaps their best social hope as well. "In the next 10 years," he predicts, "you'll see the churches growing through the walls because people have nowhere else to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Strains On the Heart | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

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