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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1996
Page
15
Salt Lake City reports the Mormon Church’s Hong Kong temple will be dedicated in seven services this weekend. The Kowloon Tong temple serves 21,000 members across Hong Kong Macao and Singapore and features a granite exterior and gold dome with a Moroni statue.
Pope John Paul II appointed Francis E. George 59 of Yakima Washington to become the ninth archbishop of Portland. He will be installed May 27 in St Marys Cathedral, succeeding William J Levada who moved to San Francisco last October. The Portland Archdiocese, founded in 1846 as the Oregon City see, is the second oldest in the United States.
Aiken plans participate in the World Jesus Rally with a local march Saturday at 10 A.M. starting at Second Baptist Church Hampton Avenue to Laurens Street and Park Avenue ending at the Aiken County Courthouse. Organizers anticipate 900 to 1,000 participants joining hundreds of marches in over 170 nations for a non political interracial worship event. Details at 648-2284.
Associated Press reports a dramatic Brooklyn outdoor revival where 10 armed men taunted black church members while a white photographer, Thomas Roma, sought peace. The incident spurred Roma to complete a four year journey across diverse black churches, now featured in a MoMA exhibit and the book Come Sunday, capturing faith through intimate scenes from 1991 to 1994.
Rev. Donnie F. Dixon of Camden, a pastor and artist, turned tragedy into vocation after his grandfather’s 1976 death inspired a first verse. Now 44, he leads Poets Pathway, a touring Midlands exhibit blending abstract paintings with poems and Scripture.
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