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...bathe but separately. In Israel, she toured the fortress at Masada where Jewish zealots made a suicidal last stand against the Roman Legion in A.D. 73. Later she helicoptered to the ruins of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. Near the site, she chatted in fluent French with a Franciscan friar...
...Mount Ararat. Once it was a two-deck ferryboat named the Point Loma that carried some 480 passengers on its regular run between San Diego and Coronado. Rendered obsolete by a bridge, the shallow-draft vessel was sold two years ago for $15,000 to a Franciscan missionary named Luke Tupper, who began to install two medical clinics, an operating room, two dental clinics and a pharmacy. He also provided a new name: the Esperanto (Portuguese for hope). This month he officially dedicated the ark, and his main problem now is how to get the U.S. Navy or the Brazilian...
There are some 50 Franciscan missionaries in the area, but Father Luke is the only physician among them. In 1970, he began to work "out of two black bags and a motorboat" around Santar...
Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, another Tibetan lama refugee, heads a busy study center in Berkeley, Calif. Not long ago, Tulku Rinpoche visited Episcopal Bishop Myers in San Francisco to ask his help in acquiring a farm for young Buddhists. Myers took him to a Franciscan mission to get more detailed information. "A few years ago," Myers chuckled, "the very thought would have shocked a lot of people: a Tibetan lama, an Episcopal bishop and Roman Catholic friars. But we were brothers. It's a great thing that Christians can help other religions find roots here. It will make possible...
...There is nothing antidemocratic about such legislation, and decent people of all faiths will support it." About the last point the rabbi is partly right, since most established Christian groups have little use for the Jews for Jesus and other overzealous evangelists. In a letter to the Jerusalem Post, Franciscan Father Joseph Cremona, who has lived in Israel for 30 years, protested the missionaries' efforts. "I am not here to suggest that the government curb missionary activity," he wrote, "but to suggest to these sects that they should not be so fanatical and aggressive, but respect the freedom...