The law allows churches, religious charities and privately held businesses to decline services to people violating those beliefs. Individual government employees may also opt out, although the measure says governments must still provide services. Bill 1523 is one of numerous such measures being introduce...
🚜 Other Mississippi Plain People There are no Beachy Amish Mennonite churches in the state as of this writing. But there isOld German Baptist Brethren Churchin the town of Hot Coffee, Mississippi. There had been a handful of families, but as of this writing it was down to one, the Die...
A brief visit to each county as known in 1891. Each county lists some historical facts, Person of Interest, Business, Churches, Secret Societies of the town. In the years since this was written many of the county lines have changes, some no longer exist. ...
Youth Ballet and MiniMag! often perform at local nursing homes, schools and churches, and the Summer Dance Intensive and Teachers Workshop bring hundreds of students from around the world to Jackson for a unique technical and spiritual experience. Ballet Magnificat! also started the Dance Program ...
Schwerner and his twenty-one-year-old chief aide , a native black Meridian named James Chaney, were in Ohio to attend a three-day program sponsored by the National Council of Churches to train recruits for the Mississippi Summer Project. Among those being trained for a summer of work aimed ...
with churches sized to match its population. Just to the north, I happened upon one of the reasons the B&B pilgrims had come here. Across the river in Nauvoo, Illinois, beginning in 1839, Mormon settlers cleared swamps and established a town that swiftly grew into the largest in the st...
In the 19th century the Baptist churches and associations in the North and South cooperated on a national level in organizing foreign and home missions and religious publications. Slavery, however, soon caused disagreements between Southern and Northern Baptists, and in 1845 the Southern Baptists set...