Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need some companionship, look into the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston (FSSGB). FSSGB (646-6062) holds a group sing every Wednesday night at 8 pm at the Interfaith building, 490 Beacon St. in Boston. If no one answers when you pound on the door, go around back and signal with the buzzer hanging out the window...
...Washington, B.C., 7,000 demonstrators marched around the Capitol demanding that abortion be outlawed. At the same time, pro-abortion forces held an interfaith service in a nearby Protestant church to reaffirm their support of women's right to end unwanted pregnancies. In downtown Houston, some 250 people, many of them wearing black armbands in memory of the aborted unborn, gathered to protest the legality of such operations. Outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, a crowd demonstrated against the Roman Catholic Church's position, which holds that abortion is a sin. In a display...
Furthermore, advocates believe that the terms in which corporations discuss their positions are misleading. To discuss minor improvements in social conditions and the lack of positive harm being done obscures these companies' support for white minority rule, according to Timothy Smith, an associate of the Interfaith Committee on Social Responsibility in Investment...
...number of companies appeared to be ignorant of the social implications of Namibian investment, says Interfaith's Timothy Smith. The churches carry on continuing discussions with corporations in order to "sensitize them to socially important issues," Smith says...
...their notable successes in interfaith cooperation, Roman Catholics and Protestants are still separated by knotty doctrinal differences as old as the Reformation. Among the major problems are varying notions of the Eucharist or Lord's Supper, differing concepts of priesthood and ministry, and conflicting definitions of apostolic succession, that essential tie to the Apostles that most Christians see-in various ways-as a necessary mark of an authentic church. By Catholic standards, neither the ministry nor the Eucharist of Protestant churches is valid, and until recently, any hope of unity seemed to lie in Protestant submission to those standards...