
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, April 30, 1990                   TAG: 9004300347
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

BREAKAWAY CHURCH STANDS BY ITS PASTOR

Followers of the Rev. George Stallings and his breakaway African-American church are standing by him despite allegations that Stallings had a homosexual relationship with a man he put on the payroll of his former church.

"The holy wars have begun," Bill Marshall, a spokesman for Stallings, said after reports were published in The Washington Post on Sunday.

"This stuff is trash. The people of the African-American Catholic congregation will continue its planning and installation of its first bishop-elect George Augustus Stallings Jr. on May 12th," he said. -Associcated Press

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