Word: schisms
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Sheik Isa's main worry centers on a religious schism within his people. The royal family, along with most of the nation's decision makers, are Sunni Muslims, but some 60% of the country, including most of the poor, belong to the Shi'ite branch of Islam. Bahrain thus is an inviting target for an Islamic revolution imported from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. The island in fact was part of Persia until Sheik Isa's ancestors, who came from Qatar, drove out the Persians in 1783. Since the revolution that brought Ayatullah...
...April 12, 1861, clergy and lay delegates from the Charleston, S.C., area assembled last week in the small, red-carpeted sanctuary of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Walterboro. The issue under consideration there and at similar gatherings across the South: whether to end the Presbyterians' own North-South schism, which dates from the Civil War. After an hour of genteel debate, the Walterboro meeting voted for reunion...
...thing is that black Presbyterians are saying, 'We're going to trust you one more time.' " Another key issue was the policy of the Northern church requiring local congregations to elect women as lay elders. When adopted by U.P.C.U.S.A. in 1979, the rule led to a schism, and it is unpopular in the South. "A congregation has the right to choose its own officers," says the Rev. J. McDowell Richards, a retired P.C.U.S. seminary president and a member of the reunion committee. The pact gives P.C.U.S. congregations a 15-year grace period in which they can apply...
...between Birmingham and the dramatic outpouring of people at the March on Washington. The traditional King supporters turned out in large numbers at the March on Washington, perhaps to forestall the emergence of a revolution with violent undercurrents that would soon bring the civil rights movement to impasse and schism...
...monastery in Rome for a year of "rest and reflection," as well as psychiatric observation. Milingo's detention has angered many Zambian Catholics, who held two large rallies in Kabwe last week demanding that the Vatican "release" their archbishop by Nov. 4. Some are even threatening schism...