Word: christian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsibility of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) and the Congregationalists. But now the 57 missionaries who remain will be "fraternal workers" under the authority of the new church, and about $1,000,000 worth of schools, colleges, hospitals and other properties will pass to Arab Christian ownership...
...Asmara, Eritrea, Ethiopia, a conference of 83 delegates from 32 church bodies met to consider relations with Islam and give forth a message "to all our brothers in Christ." Excerpts: "We call upon all the Christian churches in the Middle East to play a full part in national self-fulfillment . . . We urge the churches of the Middle East and individual Christians to recognize the points of involvement between Islamic and Christian doctrine . . . With penitence and humility we confess our need for a new spirit of respect and friendship for Moslems, through which the barriers of suspicion and fear will disappear...
...convert Jews, said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr to Christian evangelists (TIME, April 21, 1958). Jews may find God more readily in their own faith than in Christianity, he maintains, especially because of the guilt they are likely to feel if they become Christians. Since when, replies Presbyterian Minister George E. Sweazey in this week's Christian Century, should a Christian "inquire into a man's ethnic origins before deciding whether to be concerned about his religious state? Who is my neighbor? If a person in spiritual need is of Hebrew ancestry, shall we pass by on the other...
There is plenty of spiritual need among U.S. Jews, says Presbyterian Sweazey, chairman of the National Council of Churches' new department on the Christian approach to the Jews. Even those with a strong sense of their Jewish tradition are inclined to hold it as a kind of "super-intense patriotism" rather than a religion. "What Christians desire for their Jewish brethren is not so much conversion as continuation, a building onto their heritage, not a break with it. Religiously we all are Jews. It is intolerable that we should abandon those to whom we owe so much just...
Died. Egon Reinert, 50, Prime Minister of the Saar, a leader in Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union Party, who became the Saarland's Prime Minister in June 1957, five months after the French relinquished the control they had exercised over the region since the end of World War II; of auto-crash injuries; in Saarbrücken, West Germany...