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...believers in Santeria, ritual sacrifices are essential to winning the favor of the gods and initiating new members into the priesthood. To animal- rights activists, they are gratuitous carnage. In Los Angeles and in Hialeah, Florida, where Santeria is spreading quickly through the Latin, Caribbean and African-American communities, the activists have pressed for laws prohibiting sacrifices. It now falls to the Supreme Court to decide whether those laws violate the Constitution's protection of "free exercise" of religion...
...Justices will hear arguments next month in the case of the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, a Santeria congregation led by Ernesto Pichardo that held its services in a former used-car dealership in Hialeah. Worried about the city's image, irate animal-rights activists, community leaders and politicians united to pass an anti-sacrifice ordinance in 1987. For animal-rights groups, it was a natural extension of long-established laws on animal cruelty or of more recent crusades to halt animal research...
Among the area's clothing manufacturers is Antonio Acosta, 40, owner of Tony and Toni Fashions in nearby Hialeah. It makes sportswear and has annual revenues of about $500,000. Acosta, who left Cuba for the U.S. at 16, headed for the garment district, one of the few sources of jobs for Cuban newcomers. Says he: "When I came to Miami in 1960, I didn't speak any English. I had no money and no job. I started as a sweeper, cleaning the factory." After mastering various industry skills, Acosta sank his savings into a garment- cutting service...
...Little Havana in Miami, Koreatown in Los Angeles, Little Saigon in Orange County, Calif., Little Odessa in Brooklyn, N.Y. Monterey Park, Calif., was the first U.S. city to have a Chinese-born woman as mayor, and the five-member city council includes two Hispanics and a Filipino American; Hialeah, Fla., has a Cuban-born mayor; Delaware, a Chinese-born Lieutenant Governor...
...Researchers in conservative Protestant seminaries analyze evangelistic strategies. Personal contacts are stressed. Says Catholic Archbishop Robert Sanchez of Santa Fe, N. Mex.: "They're out there ringing doorbells and going into people's homes. That's hard to beat." The Rev. Tony Arango, pastor of Florida's growing East Hialeah Baptist Church, whose membership is heavily Cuban, says, "Our witnessing is done by all our members. We believe in the aggressive approach...