Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Emotionally exhausted, the thin, bearded prisoner gazes at the noisy crowd outside his room and says in a mild voice, "I am captive of my people's love, their violence and their beliefs." Captive he is, for the Orthodox folk around the town of Kisamos, on the western tip of his native island of Crete, have kidnaped Bishop Eirinaios. For more than two weeks they have held him hostage in an empty room, refusing to free him until the church restores him as their leader...
Stanislaw Kania is virtually unknown in the West, but Poland watchers are in agreement on one point: he is a loyal apparatchik with orthodox views and no inclination to buck Moscow. "Kania's advent does not bode well for people espousing reform," says Richard Davies, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland. "He can be expected to try to restrict the realization of the agreement with the workers." Another analyst puts it more harshly: "Of all the people they could have picked, he is one of the toughest...
This, plainly, was no everyday immigrant. He had served on the governing boards of both the World Council of Churches and America's National Council of Churches. As His Eminence Valerian, he was head of the 40,000-member Rumanian Orthodox Episcopate of America. Yet one day last week in Detroit he quietly surrendered his certificate of naturalization, and will soon lose the U.S. citizenship he has held for 23 years. When he took this action, he was facing trial on a federal charge that he had lied in order to obtain his citizenship...
Trifa first came to the U.S. from Italy in 1950. Two years later, he led anti-Communist Rumanians in seizing control of their church headquarters from a rival group loyal to the Orthodox patriarchate in Rumania. Meanwhile Charles Kremer, a Rumanian-American dentist in New York City and a Jew, learned that Trifa had come to the U.S. Kremer inundated the Government with documents to prevent Trifa from getting U.S. citizenship in 1957. The Immigration and Naturalization Service evidently paid him little heed. Kremer kept on trying...
...area's Christian minority of 33,000, Haddad is nothing short of a hero. In Marjayoun, several young militiamen gathered around pinball machines to talk about their leader. "We are so thankful for Major Haddad's presence here," said Chaamoun Abou Kassem, 18, a Greek Orthodox Christian...