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...smiles as he recalls that under communism, his parents were denied permission to build a house because it might be used as a religious meeting place. Under the new democracy? The same: "My wife, who taught Sunday school, couldn't rent a place for classes. My relative is a pastor in Barabinsk in Siberia. The local mayor told him to get out of town. He said, 'We don't want any religious dissent...
Billy Graham turned 75 this week, an occasion for some reckoning of a life and career full of blessings and contradictions. Everyone has a preferred ; description. George Bush called him "America's pastor." Harry Truman called him a "counterfeit" and publicity seeker. Pat Boone considers him "the greatest person since Jesus." Fundamentalist leader Bob Jones III says Graham "has done more harm to the cause of Christ than any other living man." Biographer William Martin calls him "an icon not just of American Christianity but of America itself...
...Richard Buessing, a current member andformer pastor of the Boston Unification Church,said reports that the church brainwashes andkidnaps youths date back to the 1970s. "The mediapersecuted us," he said...
...Pastor Susan P. Thomas of the UniversityLutheran Church, which runs a homeless shelter inCambridge, also said she liked the idea...
...whose investigation began 18 months ago, planted an undercover agent inside the white-supremacist community; one of their civilian informants even posed as a minister of the Church of the Creator. The agent was allegedly told by the plotters that killing the pastor of the A.M.E. church would "stir the masses," that "half-assed revolutions" don't work, and that killing black leaders was the way to start the race war. One skinhead said that "an $ average dumb nigger" should be slain so the group could bond with blood. The violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members...