Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Evangelical Lutheran Church Wheeling, W.Va...
Birmingham's best-known Negro leader, the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, a tough, thick-skinned, egocentric sort, has had his home bombed, his church bombed. Arrests in the case to date: nil. So Shuttlesworth has taken his protection into his own hands, now musters a guard of a dozen or so Negro volunteers at his church and home every night on shifts dusk to dawn...
...order to mask other intelligence activities was an unpalatable one for many Britons. Gilbert had advised Author Fuller not to "put your nose into this stinking business" because "spying is not a business for angels." Most Britons preferred to remember the words spoken in St. Paul's Church in Knightsbridge in 1948 when a memorial to the memory of war heroines was unveiled: ". . . For God proved them, and found them worthy for himself. As gold in the furnace, hath he tried them...
...study these and other atrocities at yuletide leisure. Lyricist Stan Freberg is an adman himself, with an executive suite on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and a reputation for the cute commercial (TIME, Aug. 4).) But Freberg also had a solid Baptist upbringing (his minister father still has a church in Pasadena), and for years he has felt Christmas commercialism gnawing away at his religious vitals. "The funny thing is," he says, "that businessmen would sell as much soap or soft drinks at Christmas if they never mentioned the season...
...discrepancies remained, said a Vatican spokesman, "it is up to the Italian judiciary to eliminate them." But he added: "The aggressiveness of some Protestant sects, largely financed by funds from the U.S., has become intolerable. The authorities of the Catholic Church feel it their right and duty to forestall the propagation of what they consider heresy...