Word: jerusalem
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Jews are commemorating Passover with chanted prayers and symbolic foods-the bitter herbs, the salt, the unleavened bread. But on one high mountain, near Jerusalem, another people keep their Passover just as the Lord commanded Moses in the Book of Exodus, with the blood of lambs "without blemish" which are eaten in haste, loins girded for the sudden flight. These are the Samaritans...
...century B.C. the Samaritan kingdom was called Israel. When the Assyrians "swept down like a wolf on the fold," they carried off most of the Israelites, leaving behind a destitute few who eventually intermarried with the invaders. Two centuries later, the Persian Cyrus freed the Jews of Jerusalem and returned them to their homeland; the Samaritans offered to help rebuild the temple, but were coldly rebuffed...
Looking for something to deepen the sense of Christian solidarity on the layman's level, Cullmann was inspired by the collection St. Paul made among his missionary churches for the poor Christians in Jerusalem. This, says Cullmann, was not merely an act of charity but was intended by Paul as a "symbol of unity" between circumcised and uncircumcised, Jewish and Gentile Christians. Since unity is not possible today, the offering "would no longer be a symbol of unity, but of solidarity, of brotherhood among all who invoke the name of Christ...
...Church. Athenagoras' enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. For "Elder Brother" Patriarch Athenagoras, 72, adroit politics is the main healing art in a strife-torn church that includes some 250 million souls...
...time (1948-54) Prime Minister of South Africa. Boer supremacist who sent the Afrikaans word apartheid ricocheting around the world; following a stroke; in Stellenbosch, Union of South Africa. Among Malan's ambitions were the preservation of Africa for the Afrikaners and the creation of a "New Jerusalem"; i.e., a Boer republic, where "the sacred Boer race" would not suffer "pollution" by the black man. Among his achievements was a clause added to the national constitution: "The People of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...