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...Garvey, the Jamaican Negro who paraded through Harlem under a banner with a black star in the 1920s calling for a return to Africa, scores of outfits exist. There are Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslims and Malcolm X's offshoot Organization of Afro-American Unity, the Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox Mission and the House of Common Sense and Home of Proper Propaganda, which displays a sign advertising the book The God Damn White Man. All told, they probably have no more than 5,000 members...
Thomas O. Lambdin, assistant professor of Semitic Languages, who will become associate professor of Semitic Philology. His command of South Semitic and Hamitic languages, including Egyptian and Coptic, will complete the University's coverage of Near Eastern tongues...
...time, it raised other problems. They found voice among the Middle Eastern patriarchs of Eastern Rite Catholicism, whose hierarchies are at best weak minorities maintaining delicate balance between antagonistic Jews and Moslems. "If we take the matter up, we shall have to face the music," warned Stephanos I Sidarouss, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria (and neighbor of Nasser...
...Selassie's red-carpet arrival at Washington's Union Station and an autographed photograph of himself in a silver frame. The Emperor presented the President with an Ethiopian Bible copied by hand on parchment bound in silver and overlaid with a gold crucifix, a 200-year-old Coptic church book, a silver fruit bowl inlaid with gold, a silver miniature of the Lion of Judah statue in Addis Ababa, and an autographed photo of himself in a silver frame...
...discussion afterward, clerics from the East were loudest in criticizing Vis ser 't Hooft's suggestion that the council could be discussed in terms that pertained only to the churches. Bishop Samuel of Egypt's Coptic Church warned that "the mere mention of this subject makes the work of the Orthodox churches difficult." Brown-bearded Metropolitan Nikodim, head of the delegation from the Patriarchate of Moscow, argued that it had not occurred to Orthodox bishops that the council "re gards itself as having ecclesiological significance." The Rev. Paul Verghese of the Syrian Orthodox Church, who is director...