Frederick area religion notices and donations roundup
The Frederick area hosts religious events including a May 13 Aglow meeting at North Frederick Elementary with speaker Claire Zampino. May 10 Youth for Christ banquet at Holiday Inn Key Mall with Roger Cross speaking, free dinner, testimonies, music, and pledge opportunities. AAL branch 7712 at Good Shepherd serves five congregations with 93 members and grants $500 to Bethany Church, $3,000 to Mar La Ridge and Raven Rock camps, plus member self-help services via The Correspondent.
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Central Maryland
Youth For Christ
Holiday Inn
Francis Scott Key Mall
Frederick
Roger Cross
AAL
Aid Association For Lutherans
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Frederick County
Bethany Lutheran Church
Mar-La-Ridge
Jefferson
Raven Rock
Appleton
Wisc
Clinton and Gore Welcome Dalai Lama to White House
President Clinton and Vice President Gore meet with the Dalai Lama at the White House on Tuesday. They discuss Tibet and the Dalai Lama presents a scarf symbolizing good health and prosperity to the president.
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Washington, D.C
Clinton
al Gore
Dalai Lama
White House
Tibet
Mother's Love Poem Remembers a Mother's Devotion
A reflective verse honors a mother whose love shaped a family's life providing care healing comfort and guidance. It highlights selfless sacrifice attentive listening and neighborly kindness that defined her influence and treated others as children of God.
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God
Belief Courage and Martyrdom Across Historic Conflicts
The piece surveys how religious zeal can drive adherents to death rather than submission, citing the Branch Davidians, Jim Jones followers, Masada, and early Christian persecutions. It weighs view from scholars on martyrdom, danger of absolute belief, and authorities’ resistance to fanaticism.
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Waco
Texas
James E. Efird
Duke University Divinity School
FBI
David Koresh
James Leo Barrett
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth
Sipe
Baltimore
Mark Twain
Eugene Kennedy
Chicago
Koresh
Efird
Jim Jones
Guyana
Israel
Masada
Jones
Pliny
Bythnia
Muslims seek fair place in American religious life
Muslim leaders say Islam is unfairly cast as a terrorist threat in the United States amid reactions to the World Trade Center bombing and other events. Scholars Siddiqi and Haddad note enduring prejudice, limited public voice, and rising interfaith efforts that remain outside mainstream life.
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Indianapolis
Abraham
New York World Trade Center
United States
U.S
Us.s.r
Europe
America
Mohammad A. Siddiqi
Illinois
Yvonne Haddad
University of Massachusetts At Amherst
Siddiqi
Haddad
Center For the Study of Religion and
Ted Bundy
John Wayne Gacy
World Trade Center
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini
Salman Rushdie
Saddaqi
Pentagon
Soviet Union
Russia
Middle East
Iraq
Mahmoud Abu-Saud
American Muslim Council
William H. Keeler
Baltimore
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
World Parliament of Religions
Chicago
Religion briefs clash of faiths and reform across faiths
Religion briefs report on liberal Protestant Christianity's Crisis ending after costs. British Catholics form a group supporting women's ordination. Lutheran Brotherhood donates to Habitat for Humanity. Baptist Peace Fellowship calls for prayers for urban gang summit. Reform Judaism aims to revive Israel pilgrimages. United Methodist bishops plan a May city visit. United Church of Christ president condemns Waco violence and urges restraint.
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London
Church of England
Myra Poole
Memphis, Tenn
The
Baptist Peace Fellowship
Kansas City
St. Stephen Baptist Church
New York
Reform Judaism
Israel
Alexander Schindler
American Hebrew Congregations
Land of
San Diego
Calif
United Methodist
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Branch Davidians
Waco
Texas
United Church of Christ
Paul H. Sherry
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Area Religion News
P.M. Aglow
North Frederick
Motter Ave
Frederick Claire Zampino
Jated Press
Richard
Associated Press
Shkoder
Albania
John Paul I
Balkans
Minneapolis - Lutheran Brotherhood
Habitat For Humanity
Brotherhood
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