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...Willis P. Miller, 28, pastor of the Disciples of Christ First Christian Church at Lynn, Mass., shared his pulpit with a new "assistant"-a ventriloquist's dummy named Victor who interrupts his sermons and Bible stories with questions, and, occasionally, quips...
Hungary continued its persecution of the Lutheran Church. Last year, Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass had been imprisoned on charges of black-market dealings, conspiracy against the government-very like the charges against Cardinal Mindszenty. While Bishop Ordass was in jail, the Communists had repeatedly tried to make him resign his office. He refused. Recently, Lutheran Bishop Zoltan Thuroczy-who wants to play along with the Reds-visited Ordass in his cell and delivered a Communist ultimatum: either Ordass resigns, or Communist Boss Rakosi puts the Lutheran Church under complete state control, with a government commissioner in charge. Last week Ordass...
Bulgaria has only 8,300 Protestants. The predominant sect (84%) is the Moscow-stooge Greek Orthodox Church. Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov comes from one of the country's few Congregationalist families. Last week, a U.S. Balkan expert noted that Dimitrov's first "revolutionary act" was refusal to go to Sunday school, his most recent was to jail 15 of Bulgaria's leading Protestant churchmen...
Rumania announced sweeping new decrees empowering the government to control all religious groups; the funds and properties of all churches; and the establishment of new parishes. All five bishops of Rumania's Greek Catholic (Uniate) Church (which is affiliated with Rome) have been jailed. About 600 Uniate priests have been imprisoned...
Under modern church law anathema is a grim ritual in which the person who has incurred the wrath of the Roman Catholic Church is excommunicated and condemned to "eternal fire with Satan" to save his soul on judgment...