Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pity that the nine U.S. Protestant churchmen visiting Russia [March 26] could not extend their route to the nightmarish arctic hell of Vorkuta, where so many of their colleagues are practicing high treason by holding secret religious services. Is this what Metropolitan Nikolai meant when he said, "We must now forgive and forget...
...West German churchmen expressed satisfaction at the latest figures for divorce in the Federal Republic-44,438 in 1954 v. more than 88,000 in 1948. But they frowned at ready recognition of Soviet zone divorces by West zone courts. The new East zone family relations law permits divorce when a marriage has "lost its sense for the spouses, the children and society," and this, Evangelical and Roman Catholic leaders declare, even allows the dissolution of a marriage for political reasons...
...Blake came home with a divided mind about how closely U.S. churchmen should commune with Russian churchmen...
...churchmen were equally aware of how sharply religion's role has been limited by the Communists. Said the Rev. Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk, head of the National Council's Department of International Affairs: "It's pathetic that the only role religion can play here is to help relieve the drudgery of life for the people from...
...Moscow's Vnukovo Airport one day last fortnight, five bearded Russian Orthodox prelates waited nervously for the plane from Prague. Aboard it were the latest emissaries from the West: nine U.S. Protestant churchmen representing the National Council of Churches. The Americans, in Russia for ten days of talk with Russian churchmen, were whisked off to lush quarters in the Sovietskaya Hotel, taken that night to The Bronze Horseman ballet at the Bolshoi Theater. Since, for the Americans, it was Lent, and Sunday at that, they seemed a little discomfited. "When in Rome," said one wryly, "do as the Romans...