Word: splinterable
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Religion, which tells the news of Africa, where missionaries from Dr. Livingstone on have hopefully striven to spread Christianity, but where the "white man's faith" is now facing unprecedented opposition from nationalism, from Islam, from witches and ancestor worshipers, and from the self-styled Messiahs of Christian splinter sects...
Witch doctors and nationalist prophets have confused and corroded the congregation. Recently, one of the local splinter-sect "messiahs" announced that he meant to establish headquarters on the island, and the missionary priests resorted to a theatrical gesture. They divided the nave down the center with a row of benches, then called on all who dared deny the church to remain on the far side of the barrier. For seconds no one stirred. At last some of the oldest members of the congregation moved to the other side, and slowly, most of the rest followed...
...only a temporary victory. All over Africa there is a revolt against Christianity-sometimes as xenophobic nationalism, sometimes as a reversion to witch craft and tribal rituals, sometimes as a corruption of Christian teaching in splinter sects, often as an upsurge of Islam with its tolerance of polygamy and a theology far less demanding than Christianity's. Last week, in the monthly York Diocesan leaflet Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey. Archbishop of York and Primate of England,* published an alarmed eyewitness account of the crisis. Writing from the town of Lilongwe (pop. 350 whites and 5,000 Negroes) in Nyasaland...
...Irish themselves. Descending on Dublin in the mid-1950s to study medi cine, Blaydon does battle - on the beaches, in the fields, in the streets - with a suc cession of colleens. Beautiful Theresa has a voice as misty as the mountains of Mourne, and a heart hard enough to splinter Cuchulainn's sword. After another fruitless try, with a girl named Oonagh, Blaydon comes to grips with Dymphna Uprichard (pronounced "Eweprichard"), a pale, leggy hoyden who adores wrestling by the hour in hallways and on sofas...
Until recently, Franco could shrug off such criticism. But now, at 67, Franco is worried about the future. He fears that his National Movement may splinter into fighting factions of Monarchists and Falangists, hopes to use the monarchy as a rallying point to unify the movement. The change in balance has given Don Juan an important ace to play: the continued presence of his son Juan Carlos in Spain is vital to Franco as a symbol of unity and the monarchy to come...