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...exchanged views in Israel (their previous meetings had occurred on neutral ground such as Athens and Paris), and the first time that Wynn had set foot in the Jewish state. Says Wynn: "Before the 1967 war, when East Jerusalem was in Arab hands, I used to cover the Easter and Christmas festivities there every year. Visiting the area again was a real homecoming...
...original Pentecostal movement, which took its name from the 50th day after Easter, Pentecost Sunday, when the Holy Ghost descended to the twelve Apostles, was born in nearby Topeka...
...Movement, Suárez moved to legalize the Communist Party, convinced that the Communists were more of a threat outside the system than in it?and aware that there would be protests in Western Europe if they were barred from political participation. In a deft stroke of timing, he chose Easter weekend, when most of Spain was on holiday, to act. So stunning was the news that the Radio Nacional announcer sputtered through the first bulletin in disbelief...
...Their Knees. It has not. Since that prayer meeting on the Wednesday after Easter, busloads of people from as far away as Texas and California have flocked to the humble coal town of 12,000 to gaze at the Christ of the tabernacle cloth. One day a band of bejeweled gypsies roared up in a red Rolls-Royce, crawled on their knees to the altar, and left 13 dozen red roses as they departed. By last week the number of visitors had passed 60,000 (including repeaters), even though news accounts of the "miracle" cloth have been spotty. On weekends...
...booming religious publishing business can boast some overnight bestsellers. A book version of Franco Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, for example, has sold 125,000 copies since its television showing at Easter. Even third-rate spiritual self-help books sell by the hundreds of thousands. At the same time, works of serious theology-like Maverick Swiss Catholic Theologian Hans Küng's treatise On Being a Christian-are receiving widespread attention. Some interesting new books...