Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dillingers, who represent the Unevangelized Fields Mission, a conservative Protestant agency, have helped the Danis make Christianity their own by blending it with local customs and practices. At worship, Danis use sweet potatoes and raspberry juice instead of bread and wine for Communion, and sing hymns they have written themselves...
Church groups opposed to the change include the Lord Day's League of New England, a group formed in 1895 to champion Sunday as a day of rest and worship...
Rehnquist also stated that Massachusetts could flatly prohibit liquor licenses for any establishment located near a place of worship. Such a flat ban, he said, is even more protective of churches and more restrictive of liquor sales...
Fifteen volumes offer a world of worship, nature...
...stops when the insurance man learns of a mysterious cult (the "Names" of the title). The ritual murders committed by these ragged, nomadic zealots are as easy as ABC. Their formula, revealed by Owen Brademas, an aged American anthropologist, is based on polyglot alphabets twisted into a system of worship. The killers simply match the initials of elderly or crippled villagers with those of towns. When the sacrificial names collide, their hammers fall. For Brademas, these deaths reveal a new layer of violence: "We thought we knew this setting. The mass killer in his furnished room, in his century, feeding...