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The Bradenton Herald Saturday December 31 1977 A 7 ntamFUeiHM Mideast meeting is top religion story of 77 Demands arose for full financial disclosure and audits of monies raised by various religious groups including bigname evangelists Roman Catholic bishops set strict new standards for such financial accounting Trancendental Meditation lost government funding for teaching that technique in public schools after a court found religious elements in it Nobel Peace prizes were awarded to two women in Northern Ireland French Roman Catholic Archbishop Lefevre pressed his opposition to reforms of the Second Vatican Council and took steps to start a traditionalist seminary in the United States paralleling another in Switzerland Prime Minister Begin "the weekly observed noting their mutual appeals for help and references to common Biblical roots As various organs assessed the main religious events of the year fee following got principal attention: The onset of schism in the Episcopal Church triggered by dissidents objecting to ordination of women revisions in the Book of Common Prayer and asserted secularizing tendencies in the church The drive by homosexuals for acceptance in the churches clouded by Anita successful Bible-quotlng campaign in Dade County Fla to repeal an ordinance assuring them of rights in jobs and other spheres Troubles for churches in Africa with a key Christian broadcasting center seized by the government in Ethiopia a Roman Catholic bishop murdered in the Congo an Anglican bishop killed in Uganda where most Protestant groups were banned The boom of the "born movement given impetus by President Carter and conversion of various notables an approach spilling over from coservative Protestantism into other circles including Roman Catholic attention to personal evangelism Further spread of the charismatic movement including a gathering of 45000 arm-lifting Roman Catholic and Protestant participants in Kansas City But controversy simmered over authority in some charismatic groups By GEORGE CORNELL NEW YORK (AP) When Jewish and Moslem leaders embraced In the Middle East in the waning days of 1977 raising a glimmer of hope that the fratricidal conflict might be resolved it was a top religious event of the year The impact of it' also was felt by Christians as well as others Citing it as the year's Nol religious story the ecumenical weekly Christian Century said that despite political cultural and economic ramifications of Israeli-Arab relations religion was the underlying factor in the peaceful confrontation of Egyptian and Israeli leaders "Christian and Moslem and Jew will for a long time to come recall the evocation of trancendence by President Sadat and IWIU1 H7B Few Episcopal church members leave because of women priests Catholics Anglicans agree to disagree: study group Answere may be found in MATTHEW Next week MATTHEW Now when (12 screes) was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of (4 across) the king behold wise men from the East came to (2 down) saying "Where is he who has been born king of the (t down)? For we have (19 across) his star in the (11 across) and have come to worship (13 across) When the king heard this he was troubled and all (9 across) with him and assembling all the chief (I down) and scribes of the people he inquired of them where the (C across) was to bo born They told Mm "In Bethlehem of Judea: tor so it is (2 down) by the prophet: 'And you 0 Bethlehem in the- land of (7 down) are by no means (S down) among the rulers of Judah for (1 down) you shall cone a ruler who will govern my people By GEORGE WCORNELL NEW YORK (AP) More than 90 women have been ordained as Episcopal priests since church leaders voted to allow female ordination but despite vocal opposition to the policy from some factions relatively few church members have dropped out according to a church survey The survey based on informal questionnaires to domestic dioceses that were returned in mid-November as well as additional reports showed that in addition to the women ordained in the year since the ordination of women was authorized 62 other women deacons or candidates are headed for the priesthood Through mid-November 96 men had been ordained in the church according to a report on the survey released Thursday About two-thirds of the women priests hold paid positions in fee church or serve as ministers in secular institutions colleges prisons hospitals and others Twelve are in charge of congregations as pastors assistant pastors or interim pastors The women working as chaplains in secular institutions also serve in local parishes in a variety of diocesan capacities or teaching in church schools fee survey showed Twenty of the ordained women are primarily in secular employment such as college teaching banking and graduate studies but do Sunday assignments filling pulpits or other parish tasks when they can The church said its survey showed 13 congregations voted to leave fee church and 18 voted to withhold funds from national and diocesan church programs Ten congregations declined to allow visits by their bishops The participants suggested the sponsoring bodies approve establishment of any or all of five joint task forces in fee following areas: Evangelism prayer and spirituality world hunger of cooperation between Catholic and Episcopal parishes and other bodies and on the pastoral role of bishops The group identified four "problem which were recommended to the sponsoring churches for further investigation including: Authority in the church including the role of pope and bishops but said further work may permit drawing up a set of mutual affirmations about the ministry of the Bishop of Rome fee pope The "growing claims of Christian women for full participation and partnership wife men in the life of fee church and the world" By GEORGE CORNELL NEW YORK (AP) A joint Roman Catholic-Episcopal church group in the United States while acknowledging differences continue to separate the two churches said it has found "a significant and substantial unity between them Reporting on 12 years of work by the national Roman Catholic-Anglican consultation participants on Tuesday advocated that this "unity be given expression in an immediate responding in various ways of work and worship In the report summarising the results of 19 meetings the joint dialogue group said the two churches "agree at fee level of on such basic matters as baptism the Bible as fee word of God Holy Communion or the Eucharist priesthood and ordination ethics and personal life in Christ fee nature and mission of the church 5JW: aiaaas IE SIS DEH HaO la taira MlUtiliaii a QU ANOWERO THE PALMETTO NIVE-IN CHURCH Coffee Fellowship 9 om Worship 9:30 om Rev labd Bhsscerk Nsfer Mar 1441 (Marita) A Tdta lipliw ha to rwh Sm Mn hi ivncom CHURCH OF CHRIST 2300 Forty Third St Bradenton Clarence lavsndsr Minister WESTSIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Where Visitors Are The Rule and Not the Exception! 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