Word: faithfully
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...Synod's views than in the U.S. All in all, the Synod claims a founding flock of 290 parishes in 85 of the 95 U.S. dioceses. Boosters are talking grandly of enlisting 200,000 Episcopalians by Christmas of 1990 to sign the Synod's Declaration of Common Faith and Purpose, which so far has been endorsed by 26 dissident bishops and 13,000 priests and lay members...
...glittering glass-and-steel Bank of China, Southeast Asia's tallest building and a prominent addition to Hong Kong's spectacular skyline, was to embody the faith that both Hong Kong and China placed in a common future, a visible symbol of the "one country, two systems" promised when the British crown colony reverts to China in 1997. Last week two enormous black-and-white banners drooped across the tower's facade bearing a grim message in Chinese characters: BLOOD MUST BE PAID WITH BLOOD...
Granieri's attachment to conservatism also resulted from his Catholic faith. He readily accepted Catholic positions on abortion and homosexuality and still attends mass. He remains a purist and knocks Catholic services at Harvard for their untraditional use of guitars and singing. "There are some places where it starts to drift over into vanilla religion," he says. "I like my religion straight...
...faith in his own impartial thoroughness, many say, makes him lose patience with those who he feels have not put in the same effort, or those who he thinks fail to present a rational and dispassionate case...
RELIGION: The centuries-old center of American faith is collapsing as mainline Protestantism faces unprecedented woes...