Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago China's Bishop Chen Wenyuan, steaming across the Pacific on a U.S. hospital transport, was thrilled when the ship sighted two Japanese submarines. This week in Manhattan U.S. Protestant leaders welcomed the 45-year-old Methodist Bishop ("China's No. 1 Protestant") as the unofficial ambassador of another famed Chinese Methodist, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
Through Bishop Chen, the Generalissimo invited U.S. Protestant Churches to send missionaries to postwar China, not as guests, but as comrades in the gigantic spiritual and material reconstruction that the nation will face. He was especially appreciative of the recent modification of the Chinese Exclusion Act by the U.S. Congress...
Chiang Wei-kuo, who escorted Wendell Willkie during his visit to China last year, went to Chungking on leave from his army duties. In the Generalissimo's simple home, the family's great & good friend Methodist Bishop W. Y. Chen baptized the convert. He and his Methodist father spent the next day together, in private...
Finance Minister H. H. Kung gave a reception. Social Welfare Minister Ku Cheng-kang and Minister of Education Chen Li-fu took part in the conference...
...held jointly, as a prelude to corporate unity in 1950. Meanwhile one vehicle of interfaith cooperation among China's religions was already functioning in the All-China Inter-religious Associa tion. Its board members : Roman Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin (now in the U.S.), Methodist Bishop W. Y. Chen, Buddhist Abbot Tai Hsu, Moslem General Pai Chung...