Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western tradition would be suspended in Bulgaria for a while...
...Cyrus Hamlin of Bangor, Me. took off for the Turkish province of Bulgaria. His instructions: "The people needs to be taught to read, hear and reflect." Few did more to teach Bulgarians to read and to reflect than Cyrus Hamlin and his Protestant missionary friends. They translated the New Testament into Bulgarian and helped bring out the first periodical in the Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed...
Last week Presiding Judge Konstantin Undzhiev pronounced sentence. Because of the "pastors' honest and sincere confessions," said Undzhiev, he had waived the death penalty. The four principal defendants-the heads of Bulgaria's Congregational, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal churches-got life imprisonment; nine of their associates drew prison terms ranging from five to 15 years, and two got off with suspended sentences...
However, recent admitted allegiance to the Soviet Union by communist leaders in France and Italy, and the persecution of religious leaders in Bulgaria and Hungary have changed Sullivan's views. He now feels that his bill is important to the security of the commonwealth and should become...
...tours of Eastern Europe are tentatively proposed, one to Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland and one to Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Bulgaria...