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...Jerusalem to protest the housing shortage. Most disturbing of all, however, was a revelation in a parliamentary debate: more citizens are leaving Israel than at any time since the country was founded 32 years ago, on the very principle of the Jews' return to the land of Zion...
...little-known remnant of Smith's movement is the 221,000-member Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, based in Independence, Mo., which Smith designated his "Zion" in 1831. Fifteen years later, after Smith was murdered, many Mormons followed the dynamic Young on a famous trek to Utah, where they flourished. The Reorganized Church developed from those, including the prophet's widow Emma, who stayed behind, contending that Young was a usurper. The one true spiritual heir to Smith, they believed, was his diffident oldest son, Joseph...
...steel and blue glass of the Zion Baptist Church shines out from the grey of North Philadelphia. Its beige brick walls lighten the burned out buildings nearby, and a steel cross towers over bent and broken street lights. Zion attracts one of the largest congregations in the area, a district infamous for its high crime, poor housing and racial problems...
...people of North Philadelphia. Both Sullivan and the church have created what could only be called an ecumenical empire supported by corporate funds and dedicated to providing jobs and better housing for the people of North Philadelphia. The list of the church-sponsored organizations range from the Zion Investment Associates that built a million dollar apartment complex known as Zion Gardens, a shopping center known as Progress Plaza, and an industrial complex known as Progress Industrial Park; to the Progress Aerospace Enterprises, Inc; to the Zion non-profit Charitable Trust, which is raising $6 million for the development of housing...
...older sites, the population density is such that evacuation might not be entirely successful in the worst kinds of accidents." He refused to specify which plants he had in mind, but two possibilities are the ones at Indian Point, 36 miles north of New York City, and Zion, Ill., 41 miles north of Chicago...