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Faith and Power. Ikeda himself has moved more and more into the political arena recently. He called for re-establishing diplomatic relations with China long before most other Japanese leaders did, and has written a bestselling book about his impressions of Mao's revolution. In other books, lectures and articles, which are seriously and lengthily analyzed in the Tokyo press, Ikeda has advocated a world food bank, cutbacks in defense expenditures, and nuclear disarmament. His most consuming passion is the creation of an international people-to-people crusade against war. "Government leaders come and go," he explains...
This will probably not happen this Christmas, I suppose, although in a year when Chairman Mao shakes hands with Mrs. Marcos and the Mets trade Tug McGraw, how can you tell for sure? The dude with the piano is going to be a success, soon. I feel it in my bones. I do not want to talk to him. Also, the one time I tried to play some hoop this fall, some tough-looking twelve-year-olds chased us off their court, and I didn't make a shot all afternoon. When these people call next week, maybe I will...
...missionaries reported that an underground Chinese Christian community numbering more than 1,200 has grown up in Foochow over the past five years. If the story of the Foochow revival is indeed basically true, it signals that the Christian faith can still spark enthusiasm in a land where Mao's revolution has tried to snuff...
Then came Mao's Cultural Revolution. The churches that had been allowed to stay open were turned into workshops and warehouses, and a concerted campaign was mounted to convert the remaining religious Chinese -both Christian and non-Christian-to the fervor of Maoism. But pockets of ideological resistance seem to remain...
...preparation for any possible breakthrough in the effort to get many more Bibles into China, various evangelistic organizations are translating the Scriptures into new Chinese versions. A group named Asian Outreach has already printed a version that employs the simplified Chinese characters adopted under Mao...