Word: lutheranism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PASTOR & MRS. H. E. SIMON Faith Lutheran Church Appleton...
...Harrisburg. Pa., the United Lutheran Church in America, the U.S.'s largest (2,270,000 members) Lutheran body, concluded one of its most important conferences in years. After seven days of talk, some 700 delegates to the 20th biennial convention last week...
...Abolished the group's long-standing restriction on remarriage of the guilty party in divorce, decided to permit Lutheran pastors to remarry any divorced person who shows repentance. Marriage is a "lifelong, indissoluble union." declared the delegates, but "God in His love does accept the sinner...
...Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass (rhymes with war-dash) is a tough and gallant churchman. He was a valiant center of Hungary's anti-Nazi resistance during the occupation; in 1945 he was made Bishop of Budapest. The Communists found him no easier to handle than the Nazis had; he stubbornly resisted the nationalization of church schools. In 1948 the Communists arrested him on trumped-up charges of currency-law violation and sentenced him to two years in prison. Yielding to Communist pressure, the Hungarian Lutheran Church court deposed him as bishop. After his release in 1950, he retired...
...Lutherans never ceased to work for the rehabilitation of Bishop Ordass. And as the leaders of the United Lutheran Church in America met last week for their 20th biennial convention in Harrisburg, Pa., good news came from Hungary. "The Presidential Council of the Supreme Court," growled Radio Budapest, "has declared Lajos Ordass not guilty for lack of evidence." The news was particularly gratifying to Manhattan's Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, re-elected president last week for his seventh term. Last summer Dr. Fry, chairman of the central committee of the World Council of Churches was in Galyatetö, near...