Word: rite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Archbishop of Kinshasa." Last week the situation seemed to ease somewhat. Zaïre's ruling party ordered that African names are henceforth required, but noted that new identity cards would also carry the bearer's baptismal name in small print. Meanwhile, the Vatican announced a new rite for adult Christian baptism that provided that future converts could keep their indigenous names rather than take those of saints...
...screenplay concerns a Viet Nam veteran named Bill Schmidt (James Woods) who is living a quiet rural life with his girl friend (Patricia Joyce) and their newborn baby. Unexpectedly he is visited by two Army buddies. This is no sentimental reunion, but a tense, eventually violent rite of retribution. The friends have only recently been released from prison terms stemming from their participation in a wartime atrocity. Bill was a key witness against them at their court-martial...
...beach rite is the biggest showcase for Brazil's pagan religion, but more intimate celebrations are held all year long. On paper Brazil has the world's largest Catholic population; about 90% of Brazilians call themselves Catholics. Many of them are also among the 20 million or more devotees of spiritism, a term that embraces a spectrum of practices from witchcraft to extrasensory psychological exercises...
...Nine Articles, established by the Church of England after its 16th century split with Rome, said that transubstantiation was "repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions." Thus the difference in the way they look on the rite of Communion is one of the major barriers in reuniting the two churches...
...poles retain his welterweight title with a 15-round decision over Detroit's Hedgemon Lewis. To Kid Rapidez, Nápoles' trainer, the secret weapon was "the great power up there." Rapidez, a disciple of the voodoo-like Santero religion, believes in a good rite as much as in a good left. When one of his stable of 80 boxers fights an important match in Mexico City, the Kid dons a red kerchief, a string of Shango beads and pours cologne at the fighter's feet while conga drummers beat out a petition to the gods...