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...Billy Graham, Protestant evangelist: No other man in the world today could attract as much attention on moral and spiritual subjects as John Paul. He is articulating what Catholic and Protestant churches have traditionally held, the moral values from the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. The country is responding in a magnificent way. It shows there's a great spiritual hunger. The Pope has reached millions of Protestants. The organized ecumenical movement seems to be on the back burner and ecumenicity is now taking place where Roman Catholics and Protestants share beliefs in matters like...
...paid much attention to Moon's smiling supporters when they were grossing more than $10 million a year peddling candy, flowers and ginseng tea on the sidewalk. But now that the Korean evangelist has sent his faithful into legitimate big business, both ordinary and powerful people are becoming concerned--not only with the validity of the Unification Church as a theological institution and its aims at world theocracy, but also with the legitimacy of its business practices. Indeed, the whole issue raises significant questions about the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of religion...
...years, was revived in Peking, along with units in Shanghai and Canton. In February a national-level conference in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, established an eight-year plan for government-sponsored academic research on religion. Shanghai's Catholic Bishop Gong Binmei (Kung Pin-mei), 77, and Protestant Evangelist Wang Mingdao (Wang Ming-tao), 79, both imprisoned for over 20 years, have reportedly been released. The People's Daily declared that China's government would "staunchly and consistently" uphold article 46 of China's 1978 constitution. Article 46 guarantees that the people have "freedom to believe...
BILLY GRAHAM, evangelist: I believe that the living American leaders who continue, year after year, to do the most to change things for the better are the countless mothers and fathers who have committed themselves to love and to train the next generation...
...Enduring Evangelist...