Word: preachings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being subject to Nasser's whim. Before a political rally in Alexandria, Nasser accused the Shah of being a tool of "imperialism," and, in classic fashion, all but invited the Shah's subjects to assassinate their king. Egypt's Ministry of Religious Affairs directed imams to preach sermons against the Shah as a "traitor to Islam," and Nasser urged his fellow Arab nations to withdraw their ambassadors from Teheran too. So far only Saudi Arabia has agreed, and on condition that all other Arab League nations made it unanimous...
...installed in a splendid house in the Tuileries gardens. But within two years, the intrigues and jealousies of Louis XIII's court had driven him back to Rome. And there, in 1665, "overcome with infirmities of every sort, a foreigner without friends," he died at 71. "They preach patience to me as a remedy for all ills," he wrote in his last, despairing year. "I take it as a medicine that costs practically nothing but that also cures nothing...
...University of Nebraska as a dishwiper. got a Phi Beta Kappa and an M.D. ('23). Young Dr. Judd then sailed to China as a medical missionary for the Congregational Church, was almost killed by malaria and by Communist rebels. He came back to the U.S. in 1938 to preach of the peril of Japanese expansion, made 1,400 speeches in two years urging the U.S. to stop sending war supplies to the Japanese. "I spent my time taking American scrap out of Chinese men women and children," he told House and Senate hearings...
...this sort of handout from the community around them, they will continue to be regarded as some sort of unique creatures, living abnormal and insulated lives. And what man living a normal life, with all its joy and pain, will listen with expectancy when an abnormal man tries to preach...
...first journey Barnabas and Paul left Antioch together to carry the Gospel to other cities of the Greek world. At Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, they were invited to preach before the Roman proconsul, Sergius Paulus, whose court magician set to heckling the two missionaries. At that, Paul turned on the man and denounced him so eloquently that Proconsul Paulus was converted, and his magician, according to Acts, went blind. After that encounter, Paul seems to have changed his name to its Roman form and become leader of the mission; the author of Acts begins to refer to Paul...