Word: shamiana
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...befits a religious council, the long days in New Delhi usually ended with a prayer service held under the cavernous shamiana (canopy). During working hours, the 577 delegates to the third Assembly of the World Council of Churches struggled to frame a coherent stand for non-Roman Catholic Christianity on the major issues of the times. Last week, after 18 days of debate, the Council adjourned. It will probably meet again six years from now; Ethiopia and Australia have already offered to serve as hosts...
...Daring Action. Last week's piece of Christian history began with a procession under the warm Indian sun. Two by two they strode, 1,000 strong, into a striped tent called a shamiana, and New Delhi's Hindus, Moslems, Jains and Buddhists gaped at their diversity. Archbishops and patriarchs, metropolitans and primates, bishops, canons, pastors and professors-capped, cassocked, bearded, bareheaded, in flowing robes or academic gowns, in business suits or sarongs-bodied forth the range and outreach of Christianity. Among them: Anglican Arthur Michael Ramsey, Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, German Evangelical Otto Dibelius...
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