Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this age of the world, religion has become something broader, something more comprehensive and better than the Christian theologians have conceived...
Flushed with triumph, Alfonso declared privately: "Morocco is the keystone to the prestige of the white race and of the Christian civilization in North Africa .... Spain's war is not merely 'a little African war, as so many people seem to think .... Its consequences can be world-wide in effect...
Feng Yu-hsiang, Chinese Christian soldier, now in control of the territory around Peking and of several provinces just north of the Yangtze River, would start a war by invading Shansi Province. His motives would be: 1) to embarrass the existing official government at the time of the Customs Conference; 2) to capture Shansi, a rich province which has never been completely controlled by any of the leading rival warlords...
...clock this evening Philips Brooks House, will tender a reception to all students in the University who are Christian Scientists. The entertainment will be informal, short speeches being followed by light refreshments...
...many heathen chieftains and common people that the Pope summoned him to Rome and made him a bishop. Again he returned to Germany converting, baptizing overturning idols, founding churches, monasteries. For 32 years he continued in these holy occupations, virtually making Germany over from a heathen to a Christian land. Then once more the idea of Frisia came into his mind, and he set out for Frisia once more, and within a few days he and his associates were massacred bythe heathen. So ended Wynfrith, known as Boniface...