Word: nicholases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One of the strongest Christian influences in Africa is a 50-year-old Zulu with a pencil-line mustache and horn-rimmed spectacles who has a knack of persuading criminals to turn in their weapons-and often themselves. Wearing a dark business suit, the Rev. Nicholas Bhengu stands on a...
Communism & Islam. Inevitably, the Rev. Nicholas Bhengu is known throughout Africa as "the black Billy Graham." In fact, Bhengu's manner and technique are unlike Graham's; he uses no publicity or promotion to advertise his campaigns, and his only assistance is a ten-member choir of amateurs...
Gin & the Spirit of God. Evangelist Bhengu is the grandson of a Zulu chief. His father became an evangelist at the Lutheran Mission station at Eshowe, Zululand, and young Nicholas went to school there, then to the Roman Catholic Institute at Eshowe for his secondary education, finally to a missionary...
Villains of the piece are mostly peasant oldsters who launch a religious revival when young Hero Rodka finds a buried icon of St. Nicholas near an abandoned church. From a larger village nearby comes Father Dmitry to read the Bible ("All listened attentively with heavy breathing, but in every face...
Both Stanley H. Hoffman, Henry LeBarre Jayne Assistant Professor of Government, and A. Nicholas wahl, instructor in government, were wary of accepting Hurd's conclusion that, "This means no less than France's withdrawal from the jointly decided and executed operations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization," without seeing more...