Word: gospeleers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hatred, the military junta that has replaced Rojas cannot suddenly reverse the anti-Protestant policy without stirring up stiff opposition that could cripple their aim to return Colombia to civilian control. But the junta has allowed the largest Protestant church in the country, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Barrancabermeja, to open its doors again to its 1,500 worshipers. And the government has promised a new visa policy to selected Protestant missionaries, who have had difficulty entering Colombia for more than a year...
...UNITY OF THE CHURCH IN CHRIST: In a divided Christendom "the Lutheran churches are called back to their confession: 'To the true unity of the church it is enough to agree concerning the doctrine of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments; nor is it necessary that human traditions, the rites and ceremonies instituted by man, should be everywhere alike...
...Bishop of Budapest from the false charges of currency-law violations on which the Communists had jailed him in 1948. The six years of forced "retirement" after his release, when he supported his wife and four children by knitting, ended last October, and being free to preach the Gospel again "was like being given a cup of cold water when you are dying of thirst." The congregations who listened to him had changed...
...Before I went to prison the people were filled with anxiety. Congregations had scattered, and collaborating pastors were preaching a false gospel, filled with politics. But today there is tremendous enthusiasm for the church and its leaders...
...with the rare newspaperman who comes around, they know they do not have to: most business sections will uncritically print all the company handouts that fit (sometimes even tacking on a staffer's byline). Says an Atlanta businessman of his home-town papers: "They print our handouts like gospel. We could send them a monstrous lie, and they'd print it without question...