Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to ease church-state tensions, Vatican Spokesman Father Romeo Panciroli deplored the "political interpretations" of events that were "exclusively religious and moral." Before leaving Czestochowa, John Paul also pointedly offered a prayer "for those who wield authority on Polish soil." But he seemed determined to buttress the church's role as the sole mediator between the state and the Polish people. In a special meeting of the Polish episcopate, he urged the church hierarchy to "respond to the need to hear the truth, which is so acute in society." John Paul provided plenty of examples on the remaining...
Protected from the rain by a yellow-and-white canopy, John Paul teased the crowd about the inclement weather. "Are you wet?" he asked. "Yes!" they roared back. "After so many hours of preparation in prayer do you still have enough strength to listen to the Pope? Are you not too tired and exhausted?" "No!" they thundered in response. Finally, the Pope playfully conceded that "the hard-working people of this industrial region do not easily tire of praying...
...want prayer for arthritis, stand up. Maybe it's in your neck, your shoulders, your back. Maybe in your hips or your knees. Who has a problem in your stomach and you want prayer? Kidney, liver, hernia, colon-any problem in the stomach? Please stand for prayer...
...million City of Faith medical center. Last February, amid growing reports that his center was in financial trouble, Roberts announced that Jesus had appeared to him in person and commissioned him to find a cure for cancer. The medical crusade was to be financed by Roberts' following of "prayer partners," with gifts of $240 per person. This appeal has raised more than $5 million to date. Roberts denies that his medical center is short of cash, but refuses to release any figures...
...does a Unitarian begin his prayer? Answer: "To whom it may concern . . ." That dog-eared ecclesiastical joke became a real possibility last week, as the Unitarian Universalist Association opened debate on a rather radical proposal: to delete any mention of God from its founding statement of principles. The Rev. Walter Royal Jones Jr., head of the drafting committee, noted that the idea was subject to change, and a Colorado layman protested, "We can never sell this." Nonetheless, the move toward godlessness represented a growing consensus among Unitarian Universalist congregations in the U.S. and Canada...