Word: revs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rev. Khoza Mgojo, head of the Methodist Church, said the petition would be mailed to Botha. The document was drenched during the confrontation...
...Rev. Allan Boesak, the president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, said the white authorities would view the protest as "an act of subversion...
Tutu led the procession along with Boesak, Mgojo, Roman Catholic Archbishop Stephen Naidoo and the Rev. Frank Chikane, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches...
...cannot cover sin. It has to be exposed." That was the stern view of the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart last March as he pushed for full disclosure of the adultery and alleged homosexual activities of TV Evangelist Jim Bakker. Swaggart, an emotional, tear-jerking performer whose TV ministry takes in an estimated $140 million a year, called Bakker's behavior a "cancer that needed to be excised...
...Swaggart, the group's officials announced that "his credentials with the church" were under review. One person who has seen the pictures troubling the church said they include a photograph of Swaggart and a prostitute outside a motel. ABC-TV reported that the allegations had been made by the Rev. Marvin Gorman, yet another televangelist who was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1986 for what one church official called "immorality." Gorman had accused Swaggart of spreading rumors that cost him his reputation. The sad saga of sin and stone casting among the preachers seems far from over...