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...Mandela football team and youth groups from Soweto schools have been fighting hit-and-run battles for more than two years, and residents of the neighborhood have accused team members of everything from rape to car theft. In late December the gang abducted four young men from a Methodist Church refuge, took them to Mandela's house and beat them repeatedly. One of the youngsters escaped; the team released two others after 2 1/2 weeks; and the body of the fourth, a 14-year-old named Stompie Mokhetsi, was located last week in a mortuary where it had lain unidentified...
...Mandela claims that the three youths were taken from the church refuge only to protect them from sexual abuse by the white minister, an accusation that the Methodist Church leadership dismisses as a smoke screen. She insists that the abuse would have been confirmed in court by her physician, Dr. Abu-Baker Asvat, but he was shot to death in his office late last month by two men posing as patients. According to Johannesburg's Sunday Star, however, Dr. Asvat examined the captives at the Mandela house and could have testified that they had been savagely beaten...
...from a small, Midwestern town, Defiance, Ohio, where her father was a Methodist minister," he says. "She has a very pure Midwestern work ethic and people ethic. Coming from that background, she's not a cutthroat, conservative person...
...prayer network began when Abraham Vereide, a Methodist from Montana, came to town in 1935 with the seemingly quixotic goal of providing spiritual succor to politicians. His successor, Doug Coe, leads Fellowship House, the < belle epoque-style mansion that serves as unofficial headquarters for the movement. Coe and his associates have tried to maintain secrecy about most of their activities to protect the privacy of prominent members, whose ranks represent most branches of Christianity...
...King began preparing for another demonstration. The week after the disastrous march, he delivered one of his most stirring speeches to supporters at Centenary Methodist Church. "I just want to do God's will," he declared. "And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over and seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the Promised Land. And I'm happy % tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine...