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Travelling is also a high priority. Two summers ago Cooperson went on an archaeological dig in Jordan. He recounts fasting all day, waking up at 3:30 a.m. to pray, and learning the many required phrases of social interchange. "Something specific is said when one takes a shower, or drinks a glass of water. Also, they recite alot of poetry instead of telling anecdotes like we do in this country...
...Pope was well aware of such concerns. "Certainly we cannot pray together, namely, to make a common prayer," he explained, "but we can be present while others pray." That, in fact, is what occurred. During the morning, each faith met for separate devotions in and around Assisi, and when all groups later gathered in the piazza, no interreligious rite was used; individual delegates gave their own invocations...
...other hostages, Father Lawrence Jenco, a Roman Catholic relief-agency official, was freed by his captors in July, he carried with him a videotape recording of Jacobsen. On it, Jacobsen said he "felt like one of Custer's men," adding, "You know the end of their stories. Pray that ours will have a happier ending." In another videotape released last month, Jacobsen was highly critical of the Reagan Administration for having negotiated the release of Journalist Nicholas Daniloff in Moscow while refusing to make any deals for his freedom. Said he on tape: "Don't we deserve the same attention...
...fortnight ago. On a soccer field near the scene of the accident, where 3,000 miners had assembled for the ceremony, several hundred black protesters surrounded the pulpit. One man, a steward of the black National Union of Mineworkers, shouted through a handheld loudspeaker, "We are not going to pray with whites today. We've never been allowed to pray with whites. We'll have our own rites." Soon the field was filled with marching miners, who were joined by hundreds of people from the stands. The ministers leading the service ignored the disturbance and went on with their prayers...
...Nancy Reagan, the 1960s were a dark and undisciplined time that devastated our young people and spawned a drug culture. Hollywood, once her spiritual home, often failed in its responsibilities to the young and the nation. Now she and her husband are destined to work and plead and pray harder in the next two years than they did in their first...