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While traveling abroad, devout Muslims must still say prayers five times a day while facing the holy city of Mecca. But a long trip with frequent stops could make them lose their bearings and point them in the wrong direction for worship. To prevent such a problem, Dallas Inventor George Shrime has applied science to religion and designed an electronic prayer guide. It points the way toward Mecca from any of 200 locations, beeps at worship time and displays the opening verses of the call to prayer on a liquid-crystal screen...
...next if protests continued over government orders to remove crucifixes from more schools, as occurred last week in the town of Mietno. Said Urban: "State schools in Poland were and will remain lay institutions. It therefore follows that religious symbols cannot be displayed. State institutions cannot be places of worship. The state does not try to secularize church institutions, and the church must not try to clericalize state institutions. Some overzealous people do not understand this." To make certain that the "zealots" understood, residents of Garwolin were informed that a detachment of ZOMO, the Polish riot police, had been...
...national champion they had long lacked: Ronald Reagan. The President's ardent embrace of their cause has raised cynical eyebrows among Democrats like House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who notes that Reagan is hardly a regular churchgoer. In more than three years as President, Reagan has attended worship services only nine times. Apparently referring to the disruption his attendance at a worship service might cause, Reagan said last week of his churchgoing, "I miss it very much. But I represent too much of a threat to too many other people for me to be able...
...selfless abstractions their bodies became to the men who used them, they became more than "sexual objects," more even than more women they became "Saints". Instead of being perceived as whole persons, their bodies became shrines what was thought to be their minds became temples suitable for worship. These crazy Saints stared out at the world, wildly, like lunatics or quietly, like suicides, and the "God" that was in their gaze was as mute as a great stone...
...arrived in Albany on a train called the Landmark Express. The reason that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made her much ballyhooed visit to the New York State capital last week was to lobby, along with dozens of others, for landmark-protection status for places of worship. Onassis, 54, has a particular interest in seeing that St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan does not permit construction of a 59-story office building on part of its landmark site. In Albany, Onassis met with legislators and Governor Mario Cuomo, 51. The high point of the trip was the plea that she made...