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...with a strong emphasis on the supernatural, miracles and healing. In the last century, it has grown to include over 500 million devoted followers in Asia, Africa, and South America. From the 800,000 weekly participants of the Yoido Full Gospel church in Seoul, to a weekend revival in Nigeria with over three million attendees, Pentecostalism is like a global Woodstock with Jesus playing on the bongos...
...your "Green Century" special issue [Special Report, Aug. 26]: I was born and raised in the tropical forests of Nigeria. I remember going to farm with my father during school vacations. How I loved the enchanting wildness of the forest--the giant trees that reached to the heavens; the antelopes, deer, pigs and monkeys; and especially the small waterfall that cascaded down through ancient rocks. It was as if all the birds of the earth went there to splash and drink fresh water. Some 15 years later, I went back to those roots. Alas! The land had been destroyed...
...event, held at the Barker Center, featured talks by Pauline Peters, a lecturer on public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Samuel Amadi of the Nigeria Center for Public Policy and Research and Shyaka Kanuma, a former journalist and current Neiman fellow...
...country embodied the spirit of pan-Africanism that swept the continent at the time of independence it was Ivory Coast. The country's vibrant cocoa and coffee industries were built on the sweat of laborers from French-speaking Mali and Burkina Faso and Anglophone Ghana and Nigeria. Millions of new arrivals helped make Abidjan, the commercial capital, one of Africa's most cosmopolitan cities. For many years even the term refugee was considered dirty because, in the words of founding President Félix Houphou?t-Boigny, citizens of neighboring African countries should be welcomed as "brothers." Not anymore. Today Ivorian...
...death by stoning as punishment for adultery and allowed the man she was involved with to walk free? As Jesus said, with regard to the woman caught in adultery, Any one of the executioners who has not sinned should be the first to cast a stone. BUNMI AKINSEMOLA Akure, Nigeria...