Word: islam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unless Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other sects are merged into or replaced by a great One Religion, sectarianism will continue to divide the world and communities into self-centered groups, isolate peoples, use sectarian prejudice for political advantage, and stimulate conflict which is deadly dangerous in the atomic-space...
...praying at shrines in Israel and Jordan that honor events in Jesus' life, he dramatically brought to mind Christianity's roots in Judaism, and its historic links with the Old Testament, and even with Islam. By meeting with Athenagoras, he created an "opening to the East" that John had only dreamed about. By traveling in a jet aircraft he made it clear that a modern bishop of Rome need not be a prisoner of Italy...
...impact on the modern world of many numerically inferior Protestant groups. In part, this stems from the mystical, otherworldly quality of Orthodoxy, which looks upon life as a way station before eternity, and in part it stems from the bruises of history. The rise of Islam destroyed thousands of thriving Christian communities in the Near East, and turned surviving churches into conservative, defensive ghettos that held to the faith through periodic persecutions and dreamed of the lost grandeur that was Greece. The gradual rift between Rome and the churches of the East-made final in 1054 when a huffy papal...
...completed $500 million in projects, including jetports in Jidda and Medina, a handful of palaces, and miles of superhighways. His greatest thrill was building a new mosque over Mohammed's tomb at Medina. Says Ben Laden: "To me there are only two things in life-work and Islam." ∙Simca, France's third largest automaker (after Renault and Citroën), this week gets a new president: outspoken Georges Héreil, 53. He replaces fiery Henri Pigozzi, who founded Simca in 1934 and ruled it with an iron hand until Chrysler bought control of it this year...
...round-table discussion on "Race in America" will be held Thursday at 8 p.m., in the St. Mark's Social Center, Roxbury. Participants will include Louis X, minister of the Boston Temple of Islam; Noel Day, of the Boston Action Group; and Conrad Lynn, attorney for integrationist Robert Williams...