Pastors invited to join MLK Jr. processional
Douglas County religious leaders are invited to join the official processional for Monday's service at the Lied Center celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Participants should meet by 10:45 a.m. Monday in the green room at the Lied Center on Kansas University's West Campus. The service begins at 11:15 a.m. KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway is keynote speaker.
For more information, call the Rev. William A. Dulin at 843-8913.
Presbyterians abandon plan for Olympics welcome center
Financial woes have forced the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to drop plans for a denominational welcome center at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
The denomination had hoped to raise up to $7 million to build a center for worship and hospitality in the state where 70 percent of residents are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
"We scrapped the project because it was just too much money and not enough time," said the Rev. Robert Sheldon of the Rocky Mountains synod. "It was just impossible."
The Welcome Center was to house big-screen televisions broadcasting Olympic events, while offering Bible lessons and worship in a 10,000-square-foot sanctuary. Multimedia presentations on Presbyterian missions were also planned.
Philadelphia cardinal to lead anti-abortion effort
Roman Catholic bishops are trying to regain the momentum in the long fight over abortion rights, and it is Philadelphia Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua who will lead their charge.
Bevilacqua was elected chairman of the Pro Life Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in November.
The 78-year-old prelate says he will expand an anti-abortion advertising campaign that ran last year in his city and bring an aggressive lobbying effort to elected officials.
As part of the campaign, Bevilacqua will travel Tuesday to Washington, D.C., for the annual March for Life, which commemorates the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion.
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