Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seen or an election speech to be heard, and the one opponent to Liberia's President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 63, had his own typically Liberian reason for bothering to run at all. "Not being particularly opposed to the continuation in office, of President Tubman," a church organist had said in his formal platform, "this venture of mine is divinely inspired. It is purely sportsmanlike, and is in response to the ardent desire of Dr. Tubman for fair and friendly competition...
...printing of obscene literature, has been under attack for years by physicians and their patients, but is regularly kept in force by the state senate, strongly supported by the large urban concentrations of Roman Catholic constituents. The New Haven ministers -the Rev. C. Lawson Willard of Trinity Episcopal Church, Luther R. Livingston of Bethesda Lutheran Church, and George Teague of the First Methodist Church-declared that they were "bound by the teachings of the church and our c n religious beliefs to counsel married parishioners on the use of contraceptive devices and to advise and counsel to use same...
...committee of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) ruled that artificial insemination of a wife by someone other than her husband is a violation of the marriage vows; without the husband's consent, it should be grounds for divorce. Furthermore, "we do not think a husband ought to give his consent to insemination," said the committee report. "We doubt if he would in his heart ever do more than unwillingly agree...
...valid baptism in case of necessity, recognized by the Roman Catholic Church even if performed by a nonbeliever, provided that the one baptizing really "intends to perform what the church performs...
...freedom if they renounced their faith, chose to be killed instead. In one district, not a single Christian was spared. Says Drummond: "More than 13% of all Japanese Christians lost their lives for the sake of their faith, a proportion probably unequaled elsewhere in all the annals of the church...