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...Died. Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, 77, an N.A.A.C.P. official and spiritual leader of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Son of a Boston porter, Spottswood's lifelong commitment to nonviolent action began in the 1920s...
RELIGION. Some Protestant denominations-including the two largest, the Southern Baptist Convention and the United Methodist Church-are increasing their collections a shade faster than inflation cheapens the value of the dollars put in plates. But over all, the National Council of Churches reported in mid-November, the income of 41 Protestant denominations with 46 million members rose 7.7% in 1973 while the buying power of those dollars dropped 9.6%; the gap between collections and inflation will probably widen this year. The Lutheran Church in America, troubled by high interest rates on mortgage loans, has imposed a moratorium on purchasing...
...attorneys, at least 79 persons have died under torture in the past nine years and thousands of others have been subjected to beatings, electric shocks and other torments. Torture, said the report, has become "institutionalized" in Brazil, conducted mainly by military security forces. A recent victim was former United Methodist Missionary and TIME Stringer Fred B. Morris, 41, who was held without charges for 17 days by military officials in Recife. His report...
...recited the 23rd Psalm and again arrived before the interrogators inwardly at peace. I was made to stand, and electrodes were again placed on my breast and ear. Questions moved back to my arrival in Brazil in 1964 and all of my career as a missionary of the United Methodist Church, then focused mainly on my journalistic activities for TIME and the A.P. Between sessions I was again hung on the cell door. Except for about an hour when I was strapped to the armchair, I was on my feet from Monday morning until sometime Tuesday evening...
...dispute has flared anew with the publication in the Christian Century of an article by two young Methodist activists endorsing what they understand to be the Stockwellian approach. They argue that C.W.S. has an implicit political bias of its own, "reinforcing...