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...when most good Christians were waiting to see how events would turn out. But Earth's postwar casualness about Communism's threat to Christianity has puzzled many a Protestant. In this week's Christian Century, the Rev. Hendrik Hauge, chaplain to Norway's famed Bishop Berggrav, attacks Earth's present political position...
...mobilization of laymen," the committee decided on a secretariat to stir up the laity. Germany's Pastor Martin Niemöller would travel to Australia in the fall; Dr. Marc Boegner, president of the French Protestant Federation, would bring the gospel to South America; Norway's Bishop Berggrav would go to East Asia...
Tear the Wall. German delegates mingled with such survivors of Nazi oppression as Norway's heroic Bishop Eivind Berggrav, France's Protestant leader Marc Boegner, as the Archbishop of Canterbury prayed for the tearing down of the wall that "separates and divides." Star speaker was Germany's Martin Niemoller*, who made a heartfelt confession of his country's guilt, and at least a partial atone ment for his previous statement that a "good German" does not ask whether or not Germany's cause is just...
Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Primate of the Norwegian State Lutheran Church, who talked back to Himmler and refused to become a clerical quisling, recalled his 1941 anti-Nazi stand and the five years' imprisonment it cost him: "Don't say it was just myself. I was merely the exponent for what God called me to do. ... I didn't know until these past five years that God could be such a daily reality in my life...
...ready for the reconstruction of destroyed or damaged churches, had raised 1,000,000 kroner ($200,000) to start a new church newspaper (the first issue will be published June 1) and had kept close tabs on clergymen who had betrayed the church in its hour of need. Bishop Berggrav's first official act last week was to suspend 50 quisling pastors...