Catholics seek pastoral pope like John Paul II
Cedar Rapids Catholics favor a warm pastoral leader similar to John Paul II. They cite humility humanity and concern for the poor across races and nations while considering candidates such as England's George Basil Hume and Africa's Laurean Rugambwa.
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Vatican City
Peter
Cedar Rapids
John Paul
Sienna Davis
Mount Mercy College
Clarice Flagel
Birchwood Drive
St. Pius X Parish
Edmund J. Becker
All Saints Church
Martin Laughlin
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Aloisio
Lorscheider
Brazil
Davis
the Gazette
George Basil Hume
England
Mrs. Flagel
Laughlin
St. Patrick’s
Africa
Tanzania
Laurean Rugambwa
Old-time events and sermons fill weekend Cedar Rapids area
Sunday features an old-time church service at Seminole Valley Park built as a Free Methodist church with Viola Gibson speaking on The Way It Was about the black congregation that used the building after 1919. Other schedules include revival meetings led by Rev. Bill Bowler in Marion and multiple church services, luncheons, and installations across Cedar Rapids and nearby towns through Sunday.
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Pioneer Village Chautauqua
Seminole Valley Park
Viola Gibson
Bill Bowler
Tucson
Ariz
U.S
Grace Baptist Church
South 15Th St
Marion
Bowler
Cedar Rapids
Kelsey Griffin
Texas
First Pentecostal Church
Center Point Road
Griffin
Apostolic Bible Institute
Minneapolis
Chinese freed get apologies for 1976 arrests
The Shensi provincial committee in northwest China apologized to 31 people arrested in April 1976 for paying tribute to Premier Chou En Lai. Wen Wei Po reports the group also opposed the Gang of Four. They spent six months in jail and were released after the radicals were purged in October 1976.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
Shensi
Sunday driver and the globe wandering drive-in chapel
A quirky feature notes a drive-in chapel west of Emo Minnesota beside drive-in banks and movie venues. An 8 by 10 foot structure with a 36 foot height houses registration books filled with signatures from people around the world.
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Emo
Minn
McCracklin to Preach at Immanuel Baptist Church Sunday
Mike McCracklin church development director for the Iowa Southern Baptist Fellowship will preach Sunday morning at Immanuel Baptist Church. He will also lead a Sunday school enrollment campaign Sunday through Wednesday. He is a Baylor University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate. The church is located at 1900 F Ave NW.
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Mike McCracklin
Iowa Southern Baptist Fellowship
Immanuel Baptist Church
F Ave
Baylor University
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth
Texas
Rally Day at Free Methodist Church Sunday morning
The Free Methodist Church will observe Rally Day at 9:30 a.m. Sunday with Fred Petrick known as Mombo the Clown to speak and perform. A fall youth activity begins at the church located at 800 G Ave NW with the Christian Youth Crusaders.
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Free Methodist Church
Fred Petrick
Mombo the Clown
G Ave. NW
Christian Youth Crusaders
Little House Actor Karl Swenson Dies at 70
Karl Swenson known as Mr. Hansen on Little House on the Prairie died this week at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington Connecticut. He was 70 years old.
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Torrington
Conn
UPI
Karl Swenson
Mr. Hansen
Holy Spirit conference at Decorah on Luther College campus
Decorah hosts the Interfaith Conference on the Holy Spirit Friday through Sunday with speakers from Minnesota California and Michigan. Main speaker Rev Harald Bredesen discusses Luke 4 18 19 and outreach includes an afterglow service finishing Sunday.
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Decorah
Luther College
Harald Bredesen
North County Christian Center
San Marcos
Calif
Bredesen
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Menachim Begin
Israel
Art Mueller
Gospel Trail Ministries
Fergus Falls
Minn
Jim Kunz
Catholic Charismatics
Austin
Jim Delaney
Midwest Christian Center
Janesville
Wis
Roger Pugh
New Era
Mich
Luther College Union
Musicland
Indian spider spirits adopted by white man
Jim Gillihan, former South Dakota cultural preservation director, says Sioux gifts a medicine pouch with spider spirits to guide him. He recounts rituals, Stone singing, and a 1975 sweat lodge that preceded cancer surgery with a sign, 405 tobacco ties, and 405 stitches. He survives with strength.
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White Man
Pierre
S.D
Jim Gillihan
Gillihan
Mount Carmel, Ill
Bradley University
South Dakota
Yankton Dakota
Frank Fools Crow
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Westminster
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All Saints
Barbara Sukut
Donna Dirksen
First Christian Church
Third Ave
Miss Dirksen
Sioux Falls
University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
Thad Thomas
Mount Carmel Baptist Church
Waterloo
Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church
Eighth St
Mount Carmel
Les Peterson
New Tribes Mission
Waukesha
First Covenant Church
25Th St
Pilgrim’s Progress
Toddville Free Methodist Church
Claude Olegar
The
Navigator's
Eagle Lake
Colorado Springs
Colo
Faith Bible Church
South Mentzer Road
Robins
Power of
Twin Pines Baptist Church
42Nd St
Little House
Holy Spirit
B Ave
Johnson Ave
3Rd Avenue SE
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church
Third Avenue 5S.E
Harold E. Hughes
Churches United, Inc
Faith Promise Missions
Pastor John Little
Ess Park
Church of Go
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