K-Team in Albany Fights Kosher Fraud Now Targeting Violators
Albany based 12 member Kosher Law Enforcement Bureau, led by Rabbi Schulem Rubin, steps up crackdowns on businesses passing off non kosher meat as kosher. Since last fall fines rose from 6,250 in 1976 to 176,325 in 1984 and 72,425 so far this year. team uses undercover stings with disguises, sometimes spends nights in trucks with hidden cameras. The group reports threats and beatings but continues, saying the work protects consumers and kosher laws.
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Albany
K-Team
New York State
Kosher Law Enforcement Bureau
Schulem Rubin
Rubin
Mario Cuomo
Cuomo
Starsky and Hutch
Bronx
Father Joe Maier helps Bangkok slum’s needful before all else
American priest Father Joe Maier, from Longview Washington, works in Bangkok slum Klong Toey to aid 65,000 residents mostly Buddhists. He runs 11 kindergartens for 1800 children, a clinic, a home for orphans, a sewing program, and a 62-team soccer league, funded by the Catholic Church and others. He stresses education, shoes away violence, and lives in the slum to witness daily needs while guiding families toward a better life.
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Bangkok
Thailand
Joe
Joseph H. Maier
Longview
Wash
Klong Toey
Maier
Father Joe
Catholic Church
Buppha Duanchana
Buppha
Samakee Song Kroh
Redemptorist
Relief experts say resources ample to end hunger
AP Religion Writer George W. Cornell reports church relief specialists insist resources exist to end world hunger, with distribution and marketing bottlenecks as the main obstacles. Leaders from Coordination in Development and other faith groups cite Japan, Taiwan, and China as examples of densely populated areas prospering without hunger, while urging coordinated church cooperation over isolated aid.
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Boyd Lowry
Coordination In Development, Inc
The
Christian Herald
Richard Neuhaus
Japan
Thailand
Taiwan
China
Larry Ward
Scottsdale, Ariz
Food For the Hungry
Robert L. Hancock
Vienna
Institute For International Development
Ward
Hancock
Africa
Neuhaus
Institute For Religion and Democracy
Mary Hodgson Religion Editor at The Ledger
Mary Hodgson serves as religion editor and is listed with contact number 470 2265, in the Saturday, June 29, 1985 edition pages A10 to A12, indicating her role and page placement in the newspaper.
Church membership grows slowly as donations rise
New York reports 140.8 million Americans on active religious rolls about 60 percent of the population. Denominations show small gains with notable increases in Assemblies of God and LDS Church. Women enter seminaries in record numbers, with 14,142 of 56,466 seminarians female. Canadian church membership rises about 0.7 percent to 16 million as population grows 1.1 percent.
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New York
National Council of Churches
U.S
Assemblies of God
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Episcopal Church
Lutheran Church- Missouri Synod
United Church of Christ
Lutheran Church In America
United Methodist Church
Byterian Church
U.S.A
Mennonite Church
Church of God
Cleveland
Christian and Missionary Alliance
Association of Theological Schools
U. S
Canada
Furor over Midstream story linking Pope to KGB
New York Zionist magazine Midstream sparks outrage with editor "The Kingdom of God and the KGB" claiming Pope John Paul II’s rise and alleged Marxist leanings were staged by the KGB to camouflage the papacy. Board calls for editor Joel Carmichael's removal amid debate on editorial independence.
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New York
Midstream
Secret Service
Joel Carmichael
Kingdom of God
KGB
World Zionist Organization
Carmichael
Soviet Union
Mehmet Ali Agea
Vatican
United States
Pio Taghi
Washington
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Eugene J. Fisher
Arthur Hertzberg
Hertzberg
Temple Emanu-el
Englewood
N.J
Dartmouth College
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Yracy Herald
Journal
George W. Cornell
Asia
India
Bangladesh
Mary Hodgson
Pope
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