Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Emirates). Those states and Saudi Arabia have poured at least $20 billion into Iraqi coffers to help keep the advancing Iranian forces at bay. If Iraq succumbs to Khomeini's aggression, it would probably become a Shi'ite-ruled Arab nation inclined to spread the Islamic revolutionary gospel throughout the Arabian peninsula, where sizable Shi'ite populations have long resented the clannish Sunni monarchies that rule them. The tiny island state of Bahrain, where 55% of the population are Shi'ites (some of Iranian origin), nearly fell victim last December to a Khomeini-inspired coup attempt...
...focus on themselves as individuals. They see their real work as creating a community, "striving," as Brother Elias puts it, "to become one heart, one mind, one spirit." Brother Mark says, "Our choice is one another. Not wood chopping, music writing, pottery throwing, but to live the Gospel...
...prayer service in support of a man facing criminal charges in connection with a protest against Trident submarines, the other in Washington, D.C., where they participated in an evening of prayer and music for Salvadoran refugees. "Radical peacemaking," the monks believe, is a natural outgrowth of the Gospel...
...billed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who seems to be guided by the Gospel according to Guinness, as the "largest mass marriage in history." A total of 4,150 members of the Unification Church were united in 2,075 marriages performed at Madison Square Garden. Moon, something of a spiritual Dolly Levi to his flock, personally matched up the couples-many had met for the first time only days before-and some, of different nationalities, were able to converse with their new mates only through interpreters. The newlyweds will now return home until Moon gives the go-ahead...
...spring of 1933, Day printed the first edition of the Catholic Worker, proclaiming this gospel from headquarters in the kitchen of her apartment. Next came the implementation: hospices or "houses of hospitality" for the dispossessed, the Workers' School, the farm communes. By 1935 the circulation of the Catholic Worker had risen from 2,500 to 110,000. By 1937 the hospices were feeding a thousand...