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...Lightning is the most aggressive Christian sect to emerge in China since the revolution, but it follows a beaten path. In the decades before the communists swept to power in 1949, a Chinese missionary known as Watchman Nee built his congregation, the Little Flock, to 300,000 followers in central China. The sect's emphasis on decentralized congregations launched a home-church movement that helped Christianity survive communist repression. Yet as Little Flock congregations became isolated, they splintered into separate groups. The Shouters, for instance, rewrote the Lord's Prayer to read simply, "Oh, Lord Jesus," and taught followers...
...flourishing?even though its belief that the female Jesus has updated the Bible for China violates core Christian tenets. The appeal seems to be the group's claim to have improved the Christian faith by putting the end of the world into a Chinese context and offering believers a path to immediate salvation. Official Christian churches, by contrast, downplay the Final Judgment, emphasizing instead codes of behavior. That, plus the sect's insistence that China is "disintegrating from within," appeals to peasants, many of whom are poorly grounded in Christian principles and are angry at a government that has failed...
After more than three years of waiting, John de Chastelain, the retired Canadian general charged with removing arms from the path to a settlement in Ulster, was able to report his first significant result to the British and Irish governments: somewhere in the remote Irish countryside, his independent commission saw the Irish Republican Army permanently dispose of some of the guns, ammunition and explosives from its terrifying arsenal...
...circle widens New York authorities have closed the hospital where Nguyen worked pending the results of environmental testing, and are interviewing anyone who visited the hospital after October 11th. Officials are retracing Nguyen's path over recent weeks, hoping to establish the root of her infection...
...Sunday, a New Jersey postal employee who works at the Hamilton mail facility was hospitalized with inhalation anthrax; the tainted letters sent to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle both passed through the Hamilton center, and authorities are trying to recreate the path and timeline of the letters' travels...