Word: faithfull
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It certainly couldn't have come at a worse time for China's Catholics. Since the Communist takeover in 1949, all Catholics have had to join the state-sanctioned CPCA or face persecution. Out of the estimated 12 million Catholics in the country, a majority are thought to worship at...
Predominantly but not overwhelmingly black, Jones? faithful didn?t simply join his church; they became its complete dependents and indentured slaves. They received medical and dental care (when Jones or his board approved it) while they turned their paychecks over to the Temple, receiving a weekly allowance of $5. Jones...
That afternoon, Jones poured out nearly a thousand cups of Kool Aid laced with cyanide and, in an excruciating parody of the Eucharist, told the faithful to take and drink. They were committing, he said, "an act of revolutionary suicide, protesting the conditions of an inhumane world." In the detritus...
With more than 150 performances scheduled for this year’s Arts First weekend, it stands to reason that a diverse range of acts will see the stage. This variety is certainly the case with the weekend’s concerts: alongside the familiar orchestras, rock bands, and a...
By HENRY M. COWLESCrimson Staff WriterAfter last year’s collapse of Freefall, Harvard’s most famous pop-rock heartthrob quintet, some worried that music at the College was at its nadir. Not so. Just as Freefall persevered, with some members branching off to form the Dharma...