Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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VATICAN CITY, Jan. 25--Pope John XXIII Sunday summoned an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church aimed at uniting the Christian forces of the world...
...wording of the Vatican statement indicated that Christian churches outside the Roman Catholic Church may be invited to participate in the council...
...smaller fighting sects rather than the old established churches. Example: the Seventh-day Adventists, with a membership of only 291,567 in the U.S., have the most missionaries of all-2,000 men and women, including missionaries from the U.S. and other home bases, in 184 countries. And the Christian and Missionary Alliance (membership: 87,663) has 822 missionaries abroad, or twice the number supported by the Protestant Episcopal Church (membership...
...Maurice was a senior officer of an all-Christian unit of a Roman army in the 3rd century. Ordered to sacrifice to the Roman gods, the Christian legionaries refused, and St. Maurice and his men were killed...
...Board also published a study of "racial inclusiveness," a term defined as the presence of at least one member in a congregation "other than the dominant racial group." Of 1,054 Congregational Christian churches (some 70% of the denomination's churches in U.S. metropolitan areas), nearly 27% turned out to be racially inclusive, compared to 17% in 1944. Said a board statement: "Scant basis for complacency . . . We have much yet to undertake in order to live up to our commitment as Christians and our reiterated statements that racial segregation...