Word: christ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitterness of defeat done to the faith of Toyohiko Kagawa, one of the most famed of Oriental Christian leaders? Last week in Tokyo TIME'S Chief Pacific Correspondent Manfred Gottfried talked at length with Kagawa, founder of Japan's Kingdom of God movement, biographer of Christ, and militant pacifist. War has not shaken Kagawa's faith; he is still a Christian. He is also still a patriotic Jap. Gottfried's report...
...asked how Christians had fared during the war. "We had a terrible time. All Seventh Day Adventist males were arrested. Everybody who believed in the second coming of Christ or the Last Judgment was asked to appear in court. I was three times arrested. I could not preach...
Although Chief Salgado so far disclaims any intention of reforming what was once a militant political body, opponents saw that a Christian Democratic Party embodying Integralist principles was on the way. Instead of the old slogan, "God, Country and Family," Integralist leaders would shout, "Christ and the Nation." And the propaganda organ would be a new and well-named weekly, Reaçâo Brasileira (Brazilian Reaction), edited by Pedro Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira, one of the followers of Nazi-loving ex-Police Chief Felinto Muller...
...final proof, said the Dutch, the faked Vermeer Christ and the Disciples in Boyman's Museum at Rotterdam shows Christ seated in a chair which was copied from a chair in van Meegeren's studio...
They soon noticed his ardent devotion to Saint Joseph, foster father of Christ. Soon, too, they noticed the throngs of visitors that he was attracting...