Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure that Christianity is a lasting force in the Congo (example: the Senate of the new republic, a moderating influence in the crisis, has many mission-trained Christian members). But it is also plain that the riots are precipitating the end of an era in the Congo. The Rev. Glenn Murray, 51, a Presbyterian missionary who has spent 20 years in Africa, takes an optimistic long view. "This whole thing will work out best for the church." he said. "It was very difficult to pull out and leave them, but now the Africans will have to take over the church...
Grandson Huxley (outspoken former Director-General of UNESCO, brother of Novelist Aldous) was invited by the London Observer to update the issue in a debate with the Rev. Dr. Eric Lionel Mascall of Christ Church, Oxford, a cleric who holds a bachelor of science degree along with his doctorate of divinity. Huxley insists that the argument is all over, and science...
...REV.) G. HAGMAIER, C.S.P...
Died. The Rev. Francis Xavier Gsell, 87, Alsatian-born Roman Catholic missionary, known as "the bishop with 150 wives" for his campaign against native child-marriage customs in Australia's Northern Territory (he would "buy" young girls, sometimes for as little as $5, and send them off to mission homes); in Sydney...
...ranged in size from one person (Israel, Jordan and Hungary) to 2,836 from the U.S. Rio had never seen such a cosmopolitan crowd; bare-shouldered Ghanaians and batik-clad Indonesians drew stares, while the eight delegates from the Soviet Union drew something more-a predictable blast from the Rev. Carl Mclntire. head of the Fundamentalist American Council of Christian Churches, who accused the Baptists of providing a platform for Communist propaganda. Retorted Richmond's Theodore Floyd Adams, outgoing president of the Baptist Alliance: "The Russian delegates are above suspicion. They have suffered greatly for their faith...