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Churches, 1983

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British documents reveal 1952 secret Churchill Opposed Arabs’ Claim to Negev

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 20 January 1983 · page 5

LONDON: Winston Churchill feared in 1952 that attempts would be made to force Israel to give up the Negev. And he reacted sharply in a note to the Foreian Office…

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Advertisement Study Mission Was “Experience of a Lifetime” Uia top donors (and children) back from best-ever tour

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 February 1983 · page 5

Twenty-seven top United Israel Appeal donors from Australia, together with nine children and accompanied by UIA NSW executive director Avinoam Brog are back from “the experience of a lifetime” — a ten-day Study Mission…

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Catholic Community

Tharunka · Monday 7 March 1983 · page 38

The Catholic Community is based in the Chaplaincy, Hut E15a, near the foot of Basser Steps. The Community is an informal group meeting almost…

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World in Focus Churches, unions oppose cruise testing

Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1983 · page 7

Canada: The Catholic, United, Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian churches are asking their members to write to federal…

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Catholic Eunuch Challenge

Tharunka · Monday 4 April 1983 · page 37

Dear Eds, As a practising Catholic, I deplore any suggestion by the Masked Marketeer that the…

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Morning tea with a mission

Tribune · Wednesday 8 June 1983 · page 3

The Tribune Collective offers you the chance of a lifetime: Morning tea (almost a free lunch) for those helping the irrepressible…

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Mission Beat

Tharunka · Thursday 4 August 1983 · page 30

Sydney, the city is the harbour, is hailed the world over as being one of the most beautiful place in God's Universe. But like many other…

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When Truth Becomes Power Organised Religion and the Christian Church

Tharunka · Thursday 4 August 1983 · page 9

Most Western Societies have within their history, a time when they were governed or otherwise controlled by an organised Christian institution. Regardless of their internal structure and beliefs, these institutions hold dictatory powers…

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Churchill Scholar to Study in Israel

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 August 1983 · page 5

BRISBANE: Queensland Churchill Fellowship winner Roger Shaw will visit Israel next year to study salt processes in irrigation. Mr Shaw is one of six…

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Misrepresenting God, Xianity & the Church

Tharunka · Monday 15 August 1983 · page 6

Dear Eds, I found your publication entitled “Immaculate Deception” offensive, discriminating and in very bad taste. However, I suppose that “bad taste” is what the…

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Sydney rabbi’s mission to Fiji

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 August 1983 · page 5

Rabbi Nethanial Kosfelitz, Rav of the Adath Yisroel Congregation, Sydney, flew to Fiji to perform the Brith Milah (circumcision) on the new-born son of an Israeli diplomat stationed in…

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Church historian on Luther and the Jews

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 August 1983 · page 15

Professor Heiko Oberman of the University of Tubingen, the world’s leading church historian on the Reformation period, will lecture on Martin Luther and…

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CHURCHES Christian progressives call for social justice

Tribune · Wednesday 21 September 1983 · page 10

Changing Australia, a booklet on social justice produced by four church groups, has been described as "a manifesto for action" and "a rallying cry for all Christians sick and tired of blatant injustices in Australian society."…

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Sephardi leader on world mission

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 28 September 1983 · page 3

Veteran Sephardi leader Aaron Aaron will make a five-month overseas trip to research a book on Moses and to see at first hand the condition of Sephardi communities throughout…

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World Jewish Scene Catholic nun discovers her Jewish ‘background’

The Australian Jewish Times · Wednesday 28 September 1983 · page 12

PARIS: On Kol Nidre, Sister Marie Catherine, the Mother Superior of a convent in Rimont, removed her Catholic habit and began her Yom…

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Another Intelligent Response From the Catholic Community

Tharunka · Tuesday 4 October 1983 · page 3

Dear Eds, Whenever members of our much admired Asiatic hordes feel that they have been persecuted for their ethnic inoriginality we immediately hear a tirade of…

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backblocks Former Timor church head says struggle continues

Tribune · Wednesday 5 October 1983 · page 15

MELBOURNE: Monsignor Da Costa Lopes, the Apostolic Administrator in East Timor until last May, told a public…

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Israeli zoologist’s study mission here

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 October 1983 · page 6

Although Australia is 800 per cent larger than Israel, zoologically and ecologically it shares something in…

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'Catholic Dutch Migrant Center' in Victoria

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 4 November 1983 · page 3

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World Council of Churches’ Anti-jewish Resolution Danger signs of Nazi time

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 December 1983 · page 2

The resolution on the Middle East, adopted by the recent World Council of Churches (WCC) Sixth Assembly meeting in Vancouver is probably the most ominous and discouraging statement impinging upon…

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