Word: aglipayanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are some 700,000 Moslems (the proud, independent tribesmen on Mindanao and Sulu whom the Spaniards named Moros after their own Moors), pagans (some 625,000), Buddhists (about 47,000), Shintoists (13,000), Protestants (600,000) and more than 2,000,000 members of the Filipino Independent, or Aglipayan, Church, an offshoot of Catholicism...
...past four years, Reyes and Fonacier have been fighting through the courts the question of who is supreme, and, incidentally, whether the Aglipayans will continue their uncomfortable liaison with Unitarianism or confirm an alliance with the Episcopal Church arranged in 1947. Though Fonacier plans to appeal, the decision of the court in favor of Reyes seems to have placed the 320 churches and 1,000 chapels of the Aglipayan Church within the Episcopalian fold...
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