Word: thessalonica
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...apostle's odyssey from the road to Damascus, where he was converted, to Rome. By rolling dice, a player advances a statuette of Paul to the same cities in which the disciple had preached. For example, snake eyes, or a roll of two, can carry Paul from Thessalonica to Beroea, cities he visited during his second missionary journey. The object of the game is to be the first to get Paul to Rome -even though, once there, the winner can consider himself beheaded, as, according to tradition, Paul...
...have been working and worshiping in Greece since the latter part of the 19th century. But in recent years there have been signs that the bishops of orthodoxy would like to put a lid on their Evangelical brethren. A permit to build a new church in Neos Mylotopos, near Thessalonica, was flatly denied; the government has requisitioned some property of an Evangelical church, and Evangelical Leader George Hadjiantoniou was arrested for "proselytizing" by distributing selections from the Scriptures...
...real state of persecution on the .part of the Greek Orthodox Church," wrote Hadjiantoniou. "What makes the situation still more sad and perplexing is that the initiative in this has been taken, in part at least, by people closely connected with the ecumenical movement, such as the bishop of Thessalonica, [the Rt. Rev.] Panteleimon . . . who will be the leading member of the Greek Orthodox delegation to Evanston ... We do not believe that any ecumenical movement can prosper which betrays the sacred right of religious freedom. So long, therefore, as one member of the World Council of Churches persecutes bitterly another...
...These that have turned the world upside down," is what the Apostles Paul and Silas were called at Thessalonica. In Christianity's early days, the gospel of Jesus Christ was a revolutionary religion indeed...
...Epistles to Thessalonica and Corinth," Professor Lake, Fogg Large Room...