Lenten speaker events and religious talks across Syracuse
A series of Lenten lectures and church events populate the week from Skaneateles to Syracuse. Rev Kevin E Martin of Seattle speaks on The Healing Touch of Christ at 7 30 p m Tuesday. clergy discuss apartheid and nuclear arms in lectures midweek and March 27. An 80 voice Heidelberg College Concert Choir visits Frien ds United Church of Christ for a spring concert. Italian dinner at St Vincent’s Hall March 9. Vatican forms commission to study inclusive language in liturgy and Presbyterian leader William Phelps Thompson named associate secretary general of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, to head its New York office.
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Hanger Douglas Anderson
Upstate New York
Heidelberg College
Tiffin
Ohio
Friedens United Church of Christ
Lodi St
Syracuse
New York
William Phelps Thompson
World Conference On Religion and Peace
Thompson
United Presbyterian Church
National Council of Churches
U.S
Conference
United Nations
John B. Taylor
Geneva
Switzerland
Methodist agency backs sanctuary protests amid refugee crackdown
United Methodist Social Action Agency urges congregations to speak out against punitive government actions toward sanctuary workers. Sixteen church workers face charges for aiding Central American refugees seeking sanctuary in U S churches. White Fathers rename to Missionaries of Africa due to racial overtones and changing demographics. order numbers about 2 500 priests and 300 brothers and lay members worldwide.
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Methodist Agency
Sanctuary
Washington
United Methodist Social Action Agency
U.S
White Fathers
Africa
Missionaries of
John Hiegl
Algiers
Irish children report apparition near Asdee church
About 30 Irish schoolchildren in Asdee County Kerry told UPI that they saw statues of the Virgin Mary and Jesus move. Local curate Father Michael O Sullivan said he is recording the children's experiences as crowds gather at St Marys Church in Asdee.
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Asdee
Ireland
UPI
Jesus
St. Mary’s
County Kerry
Michael O’sullivan
Nuns as early pioneers in American women’s rights
Syracuse University historian Margaret Thompson argues 19th century American nuns shaped women’s rights by financing and running schools hospitals and corporations while navigating church power. Her book The Yoke of Grace? American Nuns and Social Change explores their education nursing activism and influence on later suffrage movements.
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Margaret Thompson
Syracuse University
Thompson
Oxford University Press
New York Times
Black minister serves a church of mostly whites
Arthur Cunningham, a black minister, leads the Church of Christ in Liverpool whose 225 weekly attendees are about 10 black. He faced initial nerves and skepticism but says the congregation welcomed him. He aims to grow the church and attract more black members, noting there is no racial heaven.
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Arthur Cunningham
Church of Christ
Cunningham
Liverpool
Wetzel Road
West Monroe
Whitesferry Road School of Biblical Studies
Alabama
Ithaca
North
Louisiana
Arkansas
Mississippi
New York
Church of Christ’s
Modern Church
Pass the snake and praise the Lord
In Carterville Georgia a Free Holiness Church snake handling service shows a 2 foot rattlesnake held inches from lips as worshipers chant and testify. Pastor James Wade says the power of God is on believers even as accidents and deaths from bites have occurred since 1910, including a 50 year old minister in July and a 1978 heart attack death.
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Cartersville
Brothers and Sisters of the Free Holiness Church
Wade’s
James Wade
Wade
Georgia Mountains
Garden of Eden
Brothers and Sisters
Richard Barrett
Wade’s Chapel
Tom Harden
Hensley
Dolley Pond
Church of God Witt
Tennessee
Harden
Garland Defriese
Barrett
Brother Richard
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Daniel Hoye
Vatican Congregation For Divine Worship
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Harold M. Jacobs
Rabbinical Assembly
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Ile
Renee Graham
Dick Blume
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