Word: prayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a development of a child is of course newsworthy; but when we are told about the destruction of 1 million lives we turn the page and sigh, "They are at it again." No outrage, no days of prayer in churches, no outcries from protesters -nothing...
...word come? By one account, 13 Apostles (top leaders) experienced a common revelation at a prayer meeting on June 1. In other renditions it came complete with a visitation from Joseph Smith, the prophet of Palmyra, N. Y., who founded the faith in 1830. In an interview, his first since the announcement, Kimball described it much more matter of factly to TIME Staff Writer Richard Ostling: "I spent a good deal of time in the temple alone, praying for guidance, and there was a gradual and general development of the whole program, in connection with the Apostles...
...some point she had said to me, "Caroline asked me, what kind of prayer should I say? And I told her, 'Either please, God, take care of Daddy, or please, God, be nice to Daddy.' " What Jacqueline Kennedy was saying to me now was: please, History, be kind to John F. Kennedy, don't leave him to the bitter old men to write about...
...well. In Jewish settlements that dot the sun-drenched landscape, youths in jeans and yarmulkes dance the hora after school is let out. Their parents leave guns at the door when they gather at the community center-surrounded, as often as not, by barbed wire and sandbags-for Sabbath prayer...
Meanwhile, Moro's grieving family, who had shunned the state funeral presided over by Pope Paul VI, held a private memorial Mass in the modern Church of Christ the King in Rome. A cleric read a prayer composed by the slain statesman's widow, Eleonora, who had pleaded in vain with party and government leaders to negotiate for her husband's life. "We pray that we may be delivered from every desire for vengeance," it said in part. "We implore mercy for the executors of the horrible crime, and for all those who. out of fear, meanness...