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Never before prosecuted for his conspiracies, De Sérigny tried to flee Algiers by ship. But last week, as police hauled him off to Algiers' Barberousse Prison to join 1,000 imprisoned Moslem rebels, he muttered to himself over and over again: "A De Sérigny in Barberousse! It is impossible! It is incomprehensible!" Time to Talk. Said one Algerian Moslem happily: "Whatever is bad for De Sérigny is good for us." De Gaulle's new assertion of authority over Algeria posed a problem to the leaders of Algeria's five-year...
Just as the Christian Lent produced the custom of Mardi gras, so the Moslem fast of Ramadan, ninth and holiest month of the lunar calendar,* has long led to peculiar accommodations in Islamic countries. For 29 or 30 days every year, the devout, who must abstain from food, drink, tobacco and sex from dawn to sundown, make up for it by overindulging and undersleeping during the hours of darkness. When Ramadan, on its 32-year migration through the solar calendar, happens to fall in summer, many a weary Moslem gives up, sleeps the whole fasting day through. Tempers grow short...
...last week. Everywhere, he drew huge crowds and impressive numbers of "decisions for Christ." In Lagos, the Nigerian capital, Graham spoke to crowds as big as 100,000, with nearly 2,000 coming forward to make their decisions in dead silence-an awesome phenomenon in chatty, emotional Nigeria. Even Moslems turned out to hear a preacher so different from what Africa has been accustomed to. "He's an ordinary man like ourselves," said one Moslem. "He doesn't claim extraordinary powers or hold out an easy way to follow Jesus...
...Nigerian Moslems, heady with a December election victory that kept their Moslem Prime Minister in power, this rebuff was evidence that the Graham crusade (actually planned long before) had been staged to help put the Christians in political control. Moslem pamphlets circulated during Graham meetings, presenting "Five Points to Remember: Jesus was not the Son of God, did not die on the Cross, was not resurrected, did not go to heaven, will not return...
Billy did not reply, but for a time tempers boiled in statements and counterstatements between Nigerian Christian and Nigerian Moslem. This week things quieted down as Evangelist Graham took some time off for rest and a trip to visit Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Lambar...