Local Briefs Highlight Religious Events and Community Gatherings
A series of church and interfaith activities are listed across Syracuse area venues. Eleanor Betts retires after 28 years assisting the cathedral, with a farewell service at St Pauls. Events include a Suburban West Interfaith panel on utility costs, a Word of Life Rally at Immanuel Baptist Church, a silver tea for Sister Bernadine May, and a youth forum on nuclear questions May 22 at St Pauls Cathedral. Additional notes cover a May 21 Habitat for Humanity sale, clergy workshop May 26, and a May 20 21 arts show at Robinson Memorial Church. The Polish Singers Alliance convenes May 26 29 with concerts and a Mass finale at Sacred Heart Church and Hotel Syracuse.
Rhea Eckel Clark to Receive Interreligious Leadership Award
Syracuse area interreligious leader Rhea Eckel Clark, 80, is named recipient of the first Interreligious Leadership Award by the Syracuse Area Interreligious Council SAIC. Clark, a Skaneateles resident and longtime community servant, helped found SAIC and has held numerous leadership roles across aging and civic groups. The June 14 dinner at the Sheraton Inn Syracuse will honor her work promoting religious and ethnic diversity and cooperative action with proceeds funding interreligious education and service projects. Reservations: SAIC at 476-1.
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SAIC
Clark
Cazenovia College
New York State Citizens Council
State Office For the Aging
LeMoyne College
Wheaton College
St. Lawrence University
National Commissin On Aging
Metropolitan Commission On Aging
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Sheraton Inn
Syracuse
Annes Reservations
Bishops urge nonviolent path to a better world
U S Catholic bishops publish a 44,000 word pastoral letter urging a world without war. They call for disarmament, renewed diplomacy, and nonviolent defense while upholding just war as a last resort. The group cites Jesus and papal pronouncements, endorses a National Academy of Peace, and argues for converting defense industries to humanitarian uses.
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U.S
John Paul II
Jesus
National Academy of Peace
Humman
NCCC fights back over right wing influence claims
Read by Bishop James Armstrong, the National Council of Churches defense against allegations from Reader's Digest and CBS News that right wing voices manipulate coverage. He denied support for revolution, urged clearer financial accountability, and noted a FCC complaint amid broader council actions on admitting Metropolitan Community Churches and backing anti apartheid policy.
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San Francisco
Reader's Digest
Cbs-Tv
60 Minutes
National Council of Churches
Council
CBS News
Reader’s Digest
James Armstrong
Armstrong
NCCC
Nicaragua
el Salvador
Charles Pintchman
Pintchman
Gene Mater
CBS
FCC
Los Angeles
Armatrang
UFMCC
National Council of Churches of Christ
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St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral
Eleanor Betts
West Interfaith
Memanuel United Methodist Church
Kasson Road
Camillus
Edward Kaisch
Niagara Mohawk
John Seward
New York Public Interest Research Group
New Yor
William Bush
Immanuel Baptist Church
Barry Ho- Johan
Jack Wurtzen
Scott Freeman
Loretto
Central New York
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Marty Bartlett
Nuclear Freeze Commission
First United Church
Intercommunity Center
Lancaster Ave
The
Council of Religious of the
Diocese of
Habitat For Humanity
Onondaga Hill Presbyterian Church
Makyes Road
Hutchings Psychiatric Center
Cedar St
Syracuse Area
Robinson Memorial United Presbyterian Church
St. Stephen Lutheran Church
DeWitt St
Covenant Players of
California
North Central
North Central Assembly of God
GOD
al Capone
Midler Avenue
Roberts Memorial Free Methodist Church
Salvation Army
Camp Long Point
Seneca Lake
Tsecs
Rhea Eckel Clark
New York
Skaneateles
Dorothy Rose
nerald-Journal Prota
Mike Gree
When Eckel Clark
George W. Cornell
Pope John Paul II
Diane Curtis
Associated Press
South African Council At Churches
South Africa
United States
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