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...native is busy trying to build a new cable empire--one that eventually wires all of Europe and offers not just interactive cable TV but high-speed Net access and telephone service as well. With a $2 billion war chest and a long-term investment philosophy that doesn't worship at Wall Street's altar of quarterly earnings, Malone is one of the few big players willing and able to make such a bold...
...Into the country's leadership vacuum has stepped an eccentric mix of charismatic characters professing to have a hot line to God or a shortcut to enlightenment. According to religious scholars, there are some 2,000 "new religions" in Japan. They include Ho No Hana Sanpogyo, which urges the worship of feet, and Life Space, a group whose leader claims that he doesn't need to eat, bathe or sleep because of his superhuman powers. He is now serving a 15-year prison sentence for murdering a follower and keeping the mummified corpse in a hotel room...
Religious faith in the South End was never limited to Christianity; 1843 witnessed East Prussian Jews building the first synagogue in Boston. The religious quilt continued to expand as Methodists, Baptists and Congregationalists joined Catholics in establishing worship centers. The eclecticism continues today with a center of the mystic faith of Sufism opposite a nail salon on Harrison Avenue...
...primarily from the U.S., won converts among the Montagnards, and today some estimates put the number of Christians at some 70%. The communist government in Hanoi views any religious movement as a potential political rival. Only a few churches have been granted official status, and congregations without state approval worship at their peril. Even hill-tribe Christmas celebrations, which are held without interference in other parts of Vietnam, are subject to harassment. Leh Ksor, 35, a new resident of Raleigh, recalls how police two years ago used tear gas to break up a Christmas pageant in a highland village near...
...dozen Vietnamese police spilled out. They burst into her house, swept books and clothes onto the floor and said, as A'Noul recalls, "'If you don't give us your Bible, we will take you and put you in prison.'" She adds, "The police said, 'You don't worship God, you only worship the American government.'" After the police raids, which took place less than a week after the mass demonstrations, the frightened girl fled her hometown and settled in the U.S. Hundreds of others face a similar fate. "We are fighting for religious freedom," says Y Mphiap...