Religious groups help blacks keep land from foreclose
In Hampton Georgia a two day convocation by the Nation Churches Working Group on Dom Hunger and Poverty urged church bodies to aid black farmers facing land loss. Leaders noted declines in black land ownership from 6.1 million to 3.5 million acres between 1969 and 1974 and urged denominations to provide loans wills and education to help preserve land.
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Hampton, Ga
the Nation Churches
Horace Johnson
North Carolina
National Association of Land Owners
Profitabie Tarseven
Mary Ellen Lloyd
NCC Group
Theologian backs ERA in West Virginia IAP statement
Theologian William Phipps of Davis and Elkins College argues Jesus supported equal rights for women and that Genesis shows men and women are created equal with shared dominion. He contends Christianity was shaped by male interpretations and notes lifelong virginity arose from pagan sources.
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W.va
Jesus
William ©. Phipps
Phipps
Davis and Elkins College
Elkins
Minister install as Vermilion pastor Sunday
The Rev James J Peter will be installed as pastor of Axtel Lutheran Church Vermilion at 330 p.m. Sunday He is a 1969 Concordia Seminary graduate with pastoral education training and has served congregations in Plant City Brandon Jackson Miss Hazlehurst and McComb His wife Carol is a Gordon College graduate with recent work at Newhaven House in Mississippi They have one daughter Kelly They reside in Vermilion
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Westlake
Prince OF Peace Lutheran
Eugene M. Loehrke
Carol
Loehrke
Trinity Lutheran Church
Vermil
James J. Peter
Axtel Lutheran Church
Mason Road
Vermilion
Peter
Concordia Seminary
Sprigfield
University of Minnesota Hospital
Minneapolis
Minn
Plant City
Brandon
Fla. Jackson
Miss
Hazlehurst and McComb
Gordon College
Wenham
Mass
Newhaven House
Mississippi
Kelly
Diocese sends aid to Italy quake victims
The Cleveland Diocese forwarded 114134 to Catholic Relief Services in New York for distribution in southern Italy. Bishop Anthony M. Pilla urged parishes to give after December 1989 earthquakes. Parishes contributed about 114090 by month end January with more expected.
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Cleveland
Italy
Anthony M. Pilla
Catholic Relief Services
New York
The
American Catholic Bishops
Catholics to observe Lent with low cost meals
In the Cleveland Diocese about 132 institutions will take part in Operation Rice Bowl a Lenten program urging families to eat simple meals and pray for the world’s poor. Money saved is placed in a rice bowl and given to diocesan parishes or local hunger programs. In 1980 the program raised around $10 000 with ~75 percent sent nationally and the rest to local efforts. Elyria churches St Marys Holy Cross and Sacred Heart of Jesus participate.
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Cleveland
Elyria
St. Mary's
Holy Cross
Sacred Heart of Jesus
Seminarian Warns of Lutherans' Clergy Shortage
In St Paul a Lutheran seminary president warned two Lutheran denominations will face clergy shortages in five years. Dr Lloyd Svendsbye of Luther Northwestern Theological Seminaries urged broadening recruitment to include workers from other careers and emphasized encouraging youth into ministry. The Sacriage would affect the Lutherae Church in America and the American Lutheran Church. In Nashville AP reports the Southern Baptist Life Commission launches a four year drive to curb television immorality led by Rev Foy Valentine urging united action for change.
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UPI
Lloyd Svendsbye
Luther-Northwestern Theological Seminaries
SvenGsire
Lutherae Church
America
United States
Nashville
Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission
Foy Valentine
Commission
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