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Doomsday prediction fizzles Premier Don Dunstan of the state of South Australia strolls with crowd in Adelaide, Australia on Monday, the day an earthquake and tidal wave were to destroy the city of 800,000, according to the prediction of housepamter John Nash, who claims to be clairvoyant (AP Wirephoto) Fear and frivolity greet 'doomsday' prediction ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) It was a joke for most residents, but it caused hundreds of the less skeptical to flee to higher ground In any case, 12 30 Monday failed to produce the doomsday earthquake and tidal wave housepamter John Nash predicted for Adelaide Nash, who claims to be clairvoyant, said on Nov 3 that he had a vision of a newspaper front page reporting the disaster to the capital of the state of South Australia, a city of 800,000 An astrologer in Sydney seconded the prophecy, and some residents of Adelaide reported snails climbing to the tops of houses and sheep acting queerly Despite Premier Don Dunstan's broadcast assertion that the prediction was silly, it disturbed the uneducated and the superstitious A number of businesses were closed because employes took refuge at nearby Mt Lofty or in trailer parks on higher ground One secretary took a six-foot inflatable raft to work Surrounded by newsmen and skeptics holding "earthquake picnics," Dunstan stood on a jetty at Glenelg Beach at the predicted hour of catastrophe to demonstrate he had no fear of a tidal wave. "It's Doomsday for Adelaide Six-Inch Waves," a headline in the Sydney Sun reported Radio and television newscasts throughout Australia carried hourly reports that there had been no disaster It was a joke for many in the city "Sin now tomorrow it will be too late," said a banner displayed downtown by a group of secretaries Car salesmen offered "Doomsday Deals," telling customers they might never have to make their payments Vatican evaluation of sexuality is positive NEW YORK (AP) While condemning the modern erosion of sex standards, the new Roman Catholic declaration on sexual ethics emphasizes the importance of sexuality and the "moral goodness" of sexual union in marriage Human beings are "so profoundly affected by sexuality" that it is a key factor in giving "to each individual's life the principal traits that distinguish it," says the document issued last week by the Vatican It adds that sex gives a person the i i a psychological and i i a characteristics that "largely condition his or her progress toward maturity" and involvement in society This positive evaluation of sex, differing from older negative Church teachings about it, says that only respect for the definitive quality of sex "insures the moral goodness" of sexual intercourse in marriage. That objective bond of union, and not mere sincere'intentions, is essential for sexual acts to uphold "true human dignity" and to preserve the "full sense of mutual self-giving and human procreation in the context of true Pro-abortion group forms MADISON A coalition of Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish and other religious groups has been formed to safeguard the option of abortion. a i i Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, the organization includes several state church leaders "Members believe that abortion is a personal decision to be determineo by a woman and her physician, not by the dictates of the state," the group said in a release. SPAPFRnRCHIl love," the declaration says Out of this high view of sex, the Church statement hits at the contemporary confusion, downgrading of sex standards and "widespread aberrant modes of behavior" that violate the "true moral exigencies of the human person." The decline in sex morals is linked with "the loss of a sense of God," the statement says, and has been "engendered by the commercialization of vice, with the unrestrained licentiousness of so many public entertainments and publications, as well as with the neglect of modesty The corruption has infected education and the general mentality, says the analysis drawn up by Vatican office on sacred doctrine.

It adds. "Moral criteria and modes of living hitherto faithfully preserved have been very much unsettled, even among Christians There are many people today who have come to wonder what they must still hold as true Singled out for specific censure were premarital sexual intercourse, homosexuality and masturbation Angola leaders have religious ties By George Cornell AP Religion Writer NEW YORK All three leaders of the three factions fighting for governing power in Angola have strong religious backgrounds and continuing ties to Christianity Their parallel upbringing and somewhat similar socialistic goals are among the oddly concordant yet confusing aspects of the Angola war cited by veteran mission workers familiar with the situation there It resulted in church humanitarian aid going to all three independence groups until stopped last year when war among them broke out. "All of the three rival leaders grew up in very devoted Christian families and are very knowledgeable about the Christian faith," says the Rev. Lawrence Henderson, a mission worker in Angola for 22 years "They'd be able to out-preach most preachers in New York Angola itself is about 60 per cent Christian, the rest mostly followers of traditional African religions Of its six million people, about three million are Roman Catholics, about one million Protestants The three opposing leaders, who for more than a decade were jointly involved in the struggle against Portugal until independence was granted last summer, are all Protestants, educated in Protestant mission schools "Protestants over the years have put more effort into educational work than Catholics, so there is more leadership influence in Protestantism," says the Rev Mr Henderson, now a missions executive of the United Church of Christ Catholicism also had ties with the Portuguese colonial The Daily Tribune Friday, January 23, 1976 Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Page 11 Welcome to: First Baptist Church 910 McKinley St.

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The grandson of an Angolan Baptist minister and reared in a devout Baptist family, he was baptized in youth, and attended schools run by British Baptists, the oldest Protestant mission group Angola, there in 1878 Roberto for a time served as an instructor in a Baptist school in Salvador, Angola, and still finds time between military engagements for frequent participation in worship services Agostmho Neto, 52, head of the Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola MPLA backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba, is a Methodist son of a Methodist minister, a product of Methodist mission schools He studied medicine on a Methodist scholarship in Portugal, and later served as secretary to Angola's Methodist bishop. The present Angolan Methodist bishop, Emiho de Carvalho, reportedly supports him firmly. However, the Rev Mr Henderson said while Neto expresses appreciation for the church's "contributions in values and support for the people," his attitude toward the church "seems mainly sentimental, a carry-over from youth, rather than active participation Also, his organization's literature is openly Marxist, disparaging religion Jonas Savimbi, 41, head of the National Union for Total Independence of Angola UNITA backed by South Africa, China and the United States, is a member of the United Church of Christ, trained in mission schools, still an active churchman. On church scholarships, he studied medicine in Lisbon and earned a doctorate in political science in Lausanne, Switzerland His father, a railway worker and church lay leader with an evangelical zeal, helped found scores of churches and schools in Angola. Savimbi "has been very close to church work," said the RQEV.

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