The Nation - News from June 12, 1986
The Rev. Benjamin Weir, a former missionary to Lebanon who was held hostage there for 16 months, was elected in Minneapolis by the 198th General Assembly to lead the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). “I am aware that we live in a complex world and my church is realizing that in my election,” Weir said after he was named as moderator of the denomination of 3.1 million people, formed when the Northern and Southern branches of the Presbyterians merged in 1983.
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