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...Presbyterian minister, has proved himself one of Africa's most responsible leaders. No stem-winding demagogue, he speaks quietly, seldom utters a harsh word, yet holds almost magical sway over his people. Last year he broke the back of an uprising by the fanatical Lumpa sect of High Priestess Alice Lenshina simply by broadcasting a nationwide appeal for calm...
...wife lives without joy, blessing and good," says the Talmud. Amram Blau might also add: "But be careful of the wife you pick." A 65-year-old widowed Reb, or teacher, and 50 times a grandfather, Blau has been forced to surrender leadership of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox sect known as the Neturei Karta (Guardians of the City) for the scandal and sin of marrying shy, devout Ruth Ben-David, 45, who is not only a divorced woman but a convert from Catholicism as well...
...south was unimpressed. The offers fell far short of the provincial autonomy demanded by even moderate southern leaders. Still worse, the power behind the new regime was a bright young man named Sadik el Mahdi-scion of the Sudan's richest family and boss of the Mahdist sect, which to the south is the very symbol of centuries of Arab rule. Instead of listening to reason, the blacks renewed the attack...
...society dominated by the idea of aristocracy, this child of the slums was universally recognized as a great man in embryo. His mind was brilliant and his character founded on the Rock of Ages-he was a devout adherent of the Sandemanians, a gentle sect of fundamentalists. He looked like a sawed-off Lincoln, and like Lincoln he was earthy, realistic, modest. His pursuit of science was essentially a search for God. "These," he once said of the physical laws, "are the glimmerings we have of the second causes by which the one Great Cause works his wonders and governs...
With only 200,000 members in a traditional stronghold of Roman Catholicism, Italy's Protestants have had a long and painful struggle to gain the right to worship freely. Until 1848, the 35,000 Waldensians-descendants of a breakaway Catholic sect that was excommunicated in 1184, and turned Protestant in the 16th century-were forbidden to attend universities, practice law or medicine, or open new churches. The unification of Italy brought an invasion of Methodist and Baptist missionaries from Britain and the U.S., but Mussolini's 1929 agreement with the Vatican made Catholicism the state church, and Fascist...