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Ironically, the Hutterites' own fertility may end their way of life. To support its booming population, the sect must enlarge its settlements, increase farm holdings by 500,000 acres. As the sect expands, many younger Hutterites may inevitably drift away to "the outside world" that their elders have so long avoided...
Lebanon is a tiny, prosperous Middle East state finely balanced on the head of a religious pin. Roughly half Christian and half Moslem, it does not know which sect predominates and is anxious not to find out. It refuses to take a census and traditionally divides the top government posts so that the President is a Christian and the Premier a Moslem...
...dipped a negligent finger into the troubled waters, sent orders to Diem from his comfortable villa in Cannes to take three bit ter rivals into his Cabinet. One was General Le Van Vien, whose principal qualification for office was that he headed the Binh Xuyen, a "religious" sect which controls the city's police and also Saigon's gambling (last spring Bao Dai gave him control of the national "surete," too). Another was General Nguyen Van Xuan. who had been Premier of Viet Nam in 1946. The third was General Nguyen Van Hinh, chief of staff...
...foursquare Gospel discovered by Graves & Podro purports to be the Word as it was before the Gentiles began to monkey with it. Jesus, in the Graves-Podro work, was "a man of unusual learning, wit and piety," a member of a small apocalyptic sect. He was adopted by Mary Magdalene, crowned King of the Jews by John the Baptist at a ceremony that included a ritual mockery and beating. This, according to the authors, is where the mocking and scourging by the soldiers of Pilate really belongs. The Graves-Podro Jesus decided to bring on the Kingdom by his death...
...Rome, another squad descended on the building of the same Protestant sect, obliterated the 10-in. stone letters on the building's front, which read: "Chiesa di Cristo [Church of Christ...