Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they like the ritual with its solemnity and color." Even the Communist Party had to agree that Soviet weddings could hardly be more drab. Izvestia, carried away with the monotony of it all, even offered prizes for those who could think up elaborate and colorful rituals to substitute for Christian baptism, a coming-of-age ceremony that would correspond to confirmation, and a new wedding ritual...
...September, Plaza gathered 1,000 Catholics, most of them Peronistas, to open a "Christian Social Week." They rattled the walls with hymns, cries of "Viva Peron!" and "Viva Eva!" Early in October, Plaza blamed the 1955 church burnings on Masons, not Peronistas. Next day he led Peronistas before a visiting Vatican cardinal to petition the Pope to lift Peron's excommunication...
...people, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, took up a Christian cudgel in defense of Nikita Khrushchev. Speaking to members of the British Council of Churches (representing many Protestant denominations), the archbishop decried the fact that no eminent Christian group has endorsed Khrushchev's total disarmament proposals at the U.N. (TIME, Sept. 28). Declared His Grace: "No Christian could possibly have put forward a better plan than this. Mr. Khrushchev could not more effectively have read the New Testament...
Rabbi Hertzberg [who urged peaceful theological coexistence between Christians and Jews-Sept. 28] apparently does not understand Christianity, as regrettably many Christians do not. There can never be any proper relaxation of missionary zeal for the church. For the Christian, Christ comes first and martyrdom is preferable to compromise...
Jewish blood has been spilled for 17 centuries in attempts to purge us of our "sins" and lead us to salvation through Jesus. I think the time is ripe for Christian leaders to try to convert Christians to Christianity and to leave the Jews alone...