Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ceremony will be Cambridge's latest collaboration with the Interfaith Office on Accompaniment Nation Repopulation to aid in the resettlement of cities in war-torn El Salvador. These areas have been deserted since the escalation of the Salvadoran civil...
...frown on mixed marriage, but in Judaism it has long been seen as a particularly severe violation of religious tradition. Since the Holocaust, America's Jewish community of 5.9 million has become sensitized to its erosion through intermarriage and assimilation. Emotions run high. Rabbis who agree to officiate at interfaith marriages -- and some 75% refuse -- are sometimes viewed as traitors and spurned by synagogues. Parents and grandparents worry about the future of their families and faith. "They fear that '5,000 years of Jewish lineage is going to end with my child,' " says Rabbi Robert Alper of Wyncote...
...said the Christic Institute, a small,interfaith public interest law firm, is chargingthe 29 with violating the 1970 Racketeer Influenceand Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, which wasdesigned to combat organized crime...
...Vatican, despite accusations that the Austrian President had been involved in Nazi war crimes. The resulting controversy threatened to sour John Paul's nine-city trip to the U.S., which begins on Sept. 10. Jewish leaders in Los Angeles announced that they might boycott the Pope's scheduled interfaith celebrations. A more important Miami meeting between John Paul and American-Jewish leaders, intended to enhance relations, seemed doomed...
Instead of outlawing practices like pre-marital sex, birth-control, interfaith marriages, homosexuality and wife-swapping, the Church will encourage them. The only practices that will be disallowed are things like making it a federal case when some sleezbag lampoons you in an offensive magazine...