Word: parishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There will be a memorial service Monday,February 23 at 3 p.m. in the First Parish Churchin Harvard Square
Other names have become almost as symbolic as Howard Beach: for example, the Citadel, the Charleston, S.C., military academy where a black cadet was subjected to racist hazing; or Jefferson Parish, the New Orleans suburb where the sheriff (a Chinese American) made a suggestion (later retracted after a public outcry) that blacks walking in white neighborhoods might be stopped for questioning...
...THAT HARVARD has offered on land occupied by the St. Paul's parish rectory and parking lot at the corner of Mount Auburn and DeWolfe Streets includes plans to build some subsidized housing on the site. The University's main priority remains more housing for its own affiliates. But its willingness to provide some low-income housing--in the Cambridge market it has helped to inflate--speaks for the efforts of the neighborhood and Harvard groups that have pressured the University on its development plans in recent years...
...University has built some subsidized housing in the past--for example, following protests of its development plans in 1970. In the recent bid, Harvard apparently included its proposal for low-to-moderate-income housing in its package before the parish asked all the bidders to do the same. That's an indication that the University was sensitive to the concerns voiced by parish members. In a church-sponsored survey, a majority of St. Paul's parishioners favored building mixed-income housing on the property...
...Soviet Christians, conditions today are relatively stable. There was a wave of church closings between 1958 and 1964. But believers are allowed to worship in the buildings that remain open so long as they register their congregations with the government and do not challenge Communist bans on parish education, evangelism and distribution of Christian literature. Several high-ranking Russian Orthodox ecclesiastics have recently been seen on TV newscasts, usually appearing as supporters of the Kremlin's disarmament policies. Severe persecution is aimed primarily at groups such as those Pentecostalists and Baptists who refuse to accept Soviet controls...