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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 2000
Page
12
Religion writer McManus sees Pope John Paul II speak with moral force on Palestinian refugee camps and Jewish history. The pope visits Dehaisheh and Yad Vashem, urging empathy for refugees while urging improved relations between Catholics and Jews. He notes Jewish suffering and Christian past complicity, ending with a call for a lasting peace.
Elder Tony Marshall preaches at Providence Primitive Baptist Church in Sylvester, a tiny austere sanctuary between a cemetery and mossy oaks. The Primitive congregation, about 25 elderly worshippers, follows a plain, symbol-free interior and King James Bible beliefs tracing to John the Baptist.
Specialists evaluating the Dead Sea Scrolls argue that many Jewish ideas appear in the later New Testament, making the Gospels appear less unique yet more contextually grounded. An Oxford encyclopedia compiles differing views with editors Schiffman VanderKam Kuhn, noting Kuhn questions Jesus as Messiah and any direct Dead Sea sect membership, while scrolls reveal shared end times themes but no direct references to Jesus.
Estee Smith and Corinne Costello lead the Children’s Closet outreach at First United Methodist Church in Odessa. Open Mondays and Wednesdays, it serves ECISD social workers and teachers who refer children from kindergarten through sixth grade for clothing donations and cash gifts.
A panel from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and U S Eastern Orthodox churches urged all Christians to celebrate Easter on the same date. They noted Western Easter falls on April 23 and Orthodox Easter on April 30 this year. The proposal suggests using Jerusalem meridian based astronomical calculations to align calendars starting 2001 when both Easters coincide on April 15.
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