Word: churched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...services," a position he had not made clear in his earlier, broadside attacks on the Barden Bill. "I again wish to reiterate," she concluded, "that I have no anti-Roman Catholic bias. I am firm in my belief that there shall be no pressure brought to bear by any church against the proper operations of the government and that there shall be recognition of the fact that all citizens may express their views freely on questions of public interest...
...question of a free v. a controlled economy was not the only issue between the two parties. The Christian Democrats, headed by foxy, polished, 73-year-old Konrad Adenauer, were backed by the Roman Catholic Church. Western Germany's bishops last month published a pastoral letter urging the faithful to vote for "Christian" candidates. To the bishops' letter, gaunt Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher, violent champion of separation between church and state, made bitter reply. His party, he cried, had consistently fought all dictatorships, "whether marked by a swastika, a hammer and sickle, or deep black robes...
...Ambato, a moderate shock several minutes ahead of the cruncher had been warning enough to send people into the streets. Some rushed to church to pray. Then the earth heaved and Ambato's cathedral collapsed, burying in its ruins 70 children and the priest who had been teaching them. Other churches fell in; 70% of the city's houses were made uninhabitable. Bricks and plaster blocked Ambato's streets...
...Czechoslovakia the government produced a package of priestly "high treason." The Rev. Alois Fajstl, the state announced, had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the church to a woman apparently dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus...
...decided to stay on in America in protest against the war. From 1942 to 1946 he worked as consultant for a New York interdenomination committee to help U.S. Japanese. "I am 100% Japanese," Yuasa explained, "but I am a Christian Japanese ... I wish to be a symbol of the Church Universal...