The Ugandan-born churchman has espoused a weird variety of causes, making him impossible to categorise.

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An outspoken South African churchman, Frank Chikane, almost died when his underpants were dusted with toxins.

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As Ms Churchman explains, modern maths teaching focuses on the key concepts, and a renewed emphasis on mental methods and strategies as opposed to recall.

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The day after he spoke, Bishop Artemije, the province's most senior churchman and an advocate of reconciliation, led the last nine Serbian priests out of his home town of Prizren.

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Abraham Lincoln was not a churchman, either.

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One churchman was confronted with a village of people who genuinely believed the claims of a woman who claimed to be a witch and who said, amongst other things, that she could turn herself into a puff of smoke and leave a locked room through the keyhole.

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