Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characteristic harshness, he was, as usual, thoughtful and careful. The U.S. should not strike back militarily, he said, adding, "The strongest arm of response is the moral one, one of outrage." Then should the matter be brought before the United Nations? Replied Jackson: "I would rather call a prayer meeting." Afterward Jackson, 71, went back to his wife Helen in Everett (pop. 54,400), the lumbermill town north of Seattle where he was born and raised. And where, a few hours after he got home, he suffered a heart attack and died...
...group a few feet away carrying signs advocating peace in Central America. In the shade of an old beech tree near by, a band of antinuclear activists stood in a circle, hands linked, eyes closed, as a middle-aged woman in braids and a long skirt led them in prayer...
...pilgrimage and personal example, Pope John Paul II has tried to encourage greater devotion among Roman Catholics to the Mother of God. His travels have included stops for prayer at such famous Marian shrines as Fatima in Portugal, Guadalupe in Mexico and Czestochowa in his native Poland. But a prospective 1981 visit to the most famous shrine of all, at Lourdes in southwestern France, had to be postponed when the Pope was shot in St. Peter's Square by Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca. John Paul believes that he owes his recovery from that attack to the Virgin Mary...
There is no sure script written for the leading man in this continuing drama. But when a President begins to fancy the marching bands too much, he had better go to a prayer meeting...
...unanimously for a revision, but in dealing with a bushel of political statements on everything from nuclear arms (yes to a freeze) to Palestinian rights (an emphatic endorsement), they never had a chance to act on the rewritten statement. Nonetheless, the delegates were enthusiastic about the increased emphasis on prayer and multicultural worship at the assembly. They were also hopeful that a joint statement produced last year by the council's theology commission might provide the eventual basis for intercommunion...