Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need to do something to ease non-Catholic tribulations in Spain. By way of setting an example, he persuaded the government to compensate the British and Foreign Bible Society for a police raid on its headquarters in 1956, and blocked a request by Catholic groups to close down a Baptist seminary in Barcelona...
...nullified in practice by individual Catholic politicians, but Spanish Protestants were jubilant. "It's great news." said Bishop Santos Molina of the Spanish Episcopal Church. Added a Baptist preacher from Barcelona: "We can at last live and die openly in our faith...
...nation's great religious bodies have begun to face up to realities. Many pastors believe that their churches will be more relevant, and accomplish more good, with a committed core of true believers. "The church is moving inward," says Dr. Blake Smith, pastor of Austin's University Baptist Church. "There are a great many experiments, little trailblazers, to rediscover the reality that lies beneath the outward structure...
Among members of the 88th Congress, a Congregationalist is likely to be a Republican (19 to 5) and a Baptist is likely to be a Democrat (49 to 12)-but there are plenty of Methodists for both parties. With 102 Senators and Representatives, Methodists have passed Roman Catholics as the largest religious group in Congress for the first time since 1959. Congress also has a Schwenkfeldian, a Cumberland Presbyterian and a Seventh-Day Baptist -and six members who give no affiliation at all. The figures...
Methodist 102 Roman Catholic 99 Presbyterian 81 Baptist 61 Episcopalian 60 Congregationalist 24 Lutheran 17 Other Protestant 73 Jewish...