Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine for transporting and failing to pay a tax on marijuana. He explains that state law requires him to impose the maximum sentense in order to commit Leary for 90 days of psychiatric examination. Leary plan an appeal, which his lawyer says will be based on freedom of religion, freedom to raise one's own family as one sees fit, and freedom to pursue scientific truth...
Even in the realm of religion, the Yugoslavs are breaking fresh Communist ground. Hard on the heels of the conviction and sentencing of Poet Vladimir Gajsek for "provoking religious intolerance," Belgrade and the Vatican announced that this month they will sign an agreement according new freedom to the Yugoslav Roman Catholic Church, particularly to teach the catechism and open seminaries...
...John Courtney Murray, D.S.T., Jesuit theologian. Determined fighter for freedom in the observance, practice, and witness of religion, scorner of ambiguist and dogmatist alike, priest, professor, eminent theologian, author and editor...
Since the hill tribes have been openly hostile to Ne Win's totalitarian rule, the missionaries have frequently been suspected of taking sides with the dissidents. Despite the clerics' protests of neutrality, and despite Burma's professed freedom of religion, mission property was nationalized last year, without compensation. A Salvation Army worker was told that she had "neglected to fulfill the guest's obligation-which is to know when to go home." Remembering that the churches flourished during the Japanese occupation of Burma in World War II, older missionaries are confident that Christianity's convert...
...Sabbath best, and resignedly marched off to the meeting. Instead of catastrophe, he met only courtesy. Beneath a portrait of the Kaiser, an epauleted military doctor displayed a big picture of a louse, explained that it caused typhus, and reminded the rabbis that cleanliness accorded well with their religion. It is probably the last time in history that a German enjoined a Jew to better Judaism...