Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, April 2, 1994 TAG: 9404040153
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Hooshman Anvari was one of three whites who were killed by members of a militant black group near the city of East London. Anvari was married to Dina Tofighi, who lived in Roanoke in the late 1970s.
According to James Williams, a Roanoke-area Baha'i, Anvari was outside painting the center when the terrorists struck. News reports said the terrorists lined up Anvari and the two other whites at the center and shot them.
Tofighi was not at the center at the time of the attack, Williams said.
Baha'is religious faith specifically promotes inter-racial understanding. It's followers have held integrated religious services in South Africa for 40 years.
Lutheran bishop supports health plan
Bishop Herbert W. Chilstrom of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has joined with several other mainstream church leaders in supporting President Bill Clinton's proposed health care plan.
The Lutheran spiritual leader said the ELCA supports the plan which provides universal coverage for all people living in the United States, comprehensive benefits, employer participation in funding and the saving of money.
The bishop noted that the ELCA already demonstrates its concern for health by maintaining the nation's largest number of human service agencies including hospitals, clinics and institutions to care for people with special needs.
Craig Springs reservations
Craig Springs, a conference center with historic background near New Castle, is open for reservation for church and private use through November.
Owned and operated by Disciples of Christ churches in Virginia, it includes a large wooded mountain tract suitable for outdoor recreation as well as some space in old and contemporary buildings when not in use by Disciples church groups.
Call 864-5768 for details and rates.
True Love Waits pledges made
A total of 25 teens in Southern Baptist churches of the Natural Bridge Association have pledged their support of a True Love Waits campaign to encourage sexual abstinence until marriage.
The drive, part of a national campaign, is being promoted for spiritual purity, freedom from disease and responsibility to future mates and children. The association covers churches in several Alleghany Highlands and Shenandoah Valley communities.
To speak on Haiti trip
At the Antioch Church of the Brethren, Virginia 641 near Rocky Mount, David Webster, a Franklin County resident, will speak on April 17 at 7:30 p.m. on a recent trip to Haiti.
Webster was in the impoverished Caribbean country as a member of a Church of the Brethren observer team seeking a peaceful solution to political and health problems there.
Youth groups to plant trees
In Wytheville the combined youth groups from several town churches will unite on April 17 in planting trees and doing other landscape work at the Family Resource Center. Rain date is the following Sunday.\
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