Religion: The Word from Monte Carlo

The pretty princedom of Monaco, the center of Europe's playboy country, has now become the central redoubt of Protestant evangelism. On a mountain overlooking the Mediterranean, a Detroit-born Baptist minister and a staff of 17 are beaming a constant stream of religious broadcasts over five giant "curtain antennas" that reach across Asia to the Pacific. Broadcasts in the other direction—to Spain—carry on to Latin America. The Gospel message is carried in Russian, Spanish, Latvian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swedish, Portuguese, French, English, Italian and German. Within three months, Armenian, Georgian and Uzbek will be added; within a year, Chinese and Hindustani. And the...

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