Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King's mission is to turn that potential for violence into successful, direct, nonviolent action, and he works at the job 20 hours a day. He has moved back with his wife and four children to Atlanta, where he shares the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church with his father. His house, near the church, is an old, two-story, four-bedroom place. Paintings with African themes and a photograph of Gandhi hang on the walls. There is a threadbare scatter rug in the living room, two chairs protected with plastic, and a couch in need...
Bulgaria's Ivan-Assen Hristov Georgiev, counselor of the Bulgarian mission to the United Nations from 1956 until 1961, was so successfully obscure that scarcely any of his diplomatic colleagues missed him when he returned home from Manhattan. Last week the man no body remembered was the man everyone was talking about...
...Bella felt on the subject. But when Chou lashed out at "U.S. imperialism" at a closed meeting of Algerian leaders, Ben Bella led the applause. The Sino-Soviet feud was a more tricky problem in diplomacy. Determined to stay neutral, Ben Bella had just dispatched a high-level aid mission to Russia, Red China's archrival. Communist China's aid to Algeria consists of a $50 million loan, which may be spent on building the first highway across the Sahara to left-leaning Mali. Snickered a Soviet diplomat in Algiers: "I hope they build it during the summer...
...Africans and Asians, a major problem is eliminating the prejudice against Christianity as an unwanted "cultural import." The young churches of the East are nationalizing their hierarchies and structures as fast as means allow and are developing mission forces of their own. More than 200 missionaries have been sent from one Asian land to another to preach the faith in unmistakably non-Western accents...
...augury of the churches' future is the presence of nonwhite missionaries in Western countries. This year, for example, the United Church of North India and Pakistan sent the Rev. Emmanuel Johnson to Glasgow, where he works in a mission parish that serves both emigrants from Pakistan and Scots. In time, more missionaries from the East will be called upon to preach the Gospel in Christian countries that are in need of re-evangelizing-including the U.S. Next spring, the National Council of Churches plans to send teams of ministers and laymen who are experts on racial conflict to Mississippi...