Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head of his parish. In 1961, however, during the height of Nikita Khrushchev's antichurch campaign, the Orthodox hierarchy was forced to accept a ruling that gave Communist Party-approved lay delegates full control over each parish, making the priest a mere salaried functionary who presides at worship. In a major concession from the Gorbachev regime, the much hated regulation was revoked at last week's council. The new church charter also provides for regularly scheduled national-level and parish meetings, rather than special sessions that require state consent...
Erich Honecker, General Secretary of East Germany's Communist Party, also announced that his government would rebuild the Oranienburgerstrass e Synagogue, prewar Berlin's largest Jewish house of worship, which was ravaged by Nazi mobs during the Kristallnacht violence of 1938. The East German leader cautioned that his country might have to dole out the money in installments, since it lacked the hard currency to pay survivors all at once...
...Monday and Tuesday, Reagan took his human-rights campaign public. At the ancient Danilov Monastery, recently given back to the Russian Orthodox Church, he preached religious freedom: "We pray that the return of this monastery signals a willingness to return to believers the thousands of other houses of worship which are now closed, boarded up or used for secular purposes." At ; Spaso House, the American Ambassador's residence, the President was host to a meeting with 96 dissidents and refuseniks, including the Ziemans; some of them attended despite harassment and left fearing punishment. Said Reagan: "I wanted to convey . . . support...
Islam in America is not without its problems. "Hold fast to the rope of Allah and be not divided," urges the Qur'an, but in the U.S. that injunction has gone largely unheeded. American Islam is gravely weakened by divisions among nationalities: Egyptians worship with Egyptians, Lebanese with Lebanese. In some locations, separate congregations that use different languages share a building but have no joint activities. "There is no unified, strong Islamic movement in America," complains Muzammil Siddiqi, director of the Islamic Society of Orange County, Calif. Coordination among U.S. Muslims is lacking even on something as fundamental...
Americans don't take books that seriously anymore. Perhaps Russians don't either: their popular culture has begun to succumb to television. In America one rarely encounters the mystical book worship. Everything in the West today seems infinitely replicable, by computer, microfilm, somehow, so that if a book chances to burn up, there must be thousands more where that came from. If anything, there seem to be entirely too many words and numbers in circulation, too many sinister records of everything crammed into the microchips of FBI, IRS, police departments. Too many books altogether, perhaps. The glut of books subverts...