Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focus of HIID's activities, of course, has been and remains its overseas project on rural development, loan programs and tax reform in Indonesia, to a soon-to-be-abandoned "hands-on" project in the Sudan, where American anthropologists have been building schools and digging wells in hopes of developing technology simple enough for the Sudanese to continue after the team leaves...
Across South Korea last week, hundreds of rallies were taking place. Amid a forest of banners whipping in the wind, a din of fervent speeches and shouted slogans engulfed civic centers, factory grounds and rural town squares. The rallies culminated in long queues before folding tables as hundreds of thousands of citizens signed a uniform oath: "We hereby solemnly pledge that we shall neither offer personal favor nor accept requests...
...peddler who lives in a rural area of Henan province claims that at each of three baptizing ceremonies in his commune over the past year, "300 to 400 people became Christians." The man belongs to a loose network of "house churches," which are growing rapidly, especially in farm villages...
...underground services fostered a truly indigenous form of religion that has finally freed Chinese Christianity from the control of foreign missionaries and thus strengthened its appeal to xenophobic Chinese. Bishop Ding has recently extended official recognition to all rural house churches and hopes gradually to unify them under his organization. Local house leaders, though, are understandably wary of joining any agency under close Communist supervision...
Except for Hawaii, no state has been left untouched. But one of the worst outbreaks is now occurring in the rural counties of southern Illinois. So far this year, officials of Jackson County alone have encountered a dozen rabid animals-dogs, cats, skunks and a bat. Skunks are particularly dangerous carriers of the rabies virus; while dogs usually die within three weeks after infection, skunks survive for up to four months. Ordinarily shy, skunks have attacked dogs and cows, wandered into houses and even chased children in broad daylight...