Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone with a radio set-either transmitter or receiver-was considered a spy, calling in "Yankee" help against the cause. Sister Anne-Maria Merkens, mother superior of a mission hospital at Bondamba, 300 miles northwest of Stan, owned a tiny transistor radio. Simbas in leopardskins appeared in mid-September, accused the nuns of sending messages to the Americans, even though the radio was only capable of receiving signals. They returned a few weeks later, killed the mission's cows, stole its chickens and rice. On their next visit, they abducted schoolgirls aged 7 to 14, spent the night sniffing...
Simba Scrimshaw. When they arrived, the paras found 20 hostages murdered with a deliberate savagery reminiscent of the Nazi death camps. A group of Simbas had burst into a Dominican mission where 71 Belgians and an American missionary, Joseph Tucker, 49, had been held for three weeks...
Some of them died more quickly." The next night, seven more Belgians were killed. The priests' bodies were left on the mission steps; others were dumped into a crocodile-infested river...
...Sense of Community. Although Lanier regards the theater and his mission as separate-actors are chosen for their professional skills and not because they are on the parish roster-he believes that the church can learn from the contemporary stage. "The real experienced truth about man himself" is often better expressed in the "theater of the absurd" than in the Prayer Book, he says, and he puts drama into his unconventional Sunday services. Instead of a sermon, St. Clement's may feature a scene from Beckett's Waiting for Godot. In addition to readings from the Epistles...
Eventually Lanier hopes to become selfsupporting, a worker-priest living off his earnings in the theater and television. He also hopes that ecclesiastical experiments, such as his theater mission, will lead to a revitalization of the church. "I think that the church as we know it has to disappear," he says. "We have to take seriously the New Testament, where it says that the leaven must be lost in the dough...