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...UPPSALA (NBC, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). Secretary-General of the World Council of Churches Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, in conversation with Edwin Newman, previews the Fourth Assembly of the Council, which will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, July 4 through...
...member executive committee of the World Council of Churches met in Geneva last week to review plans for Christianity's next religious spectacular: the council's Fourth Assembly in Uppsala, Sweden, next July. Publicly, council leaders are boosting the assembly as "the most widely representative meeting in the history of the ecumenical movement." That it will be: the 1,330 clerics and laymen who are expected to attend include delegates from the council's 232 member denominations, as well as 15 official Roman Catholic observers. Privately, however, many council officials agree with the concerned forecast made...
Presented at the meeting was the Vatican-approved report of the joint working group, which revealed that Rome will send a new category of 15 "delegated observers" to next summer's massive World Council assembly in Uppsala, Sweden. For the first time, Roman Catholics will be entitled to address the assembly and, according to the World Council's general secretary, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, who would not elaborate, the new category "could also affect the makeup of the new central committee...
...Gustaf began digging for viking relies in, of all places, the gardens of Sweden's sumer castle. He found none, but that did not blunt his enthusiasm for further exporation. He studied archaeology at Uppsala University, and while a student, unearthed one of his nation's most precious artifacts-a gold-plated sword dating from Sweden's Iron Age. As the young Crown Prince, Gustaf in 1926 visited the Orient, where he met Swedish archaeologists busy uncovering China's prehistoric ages. Fascinated by the similarity between Viking and ancient Chinese bronze objects, Gustaf began collecting, helped...