Word: lutheranism
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...hand than it seems. The voice: the Rev. Dr. H. Conrad Hoyer of Chicago, who is soon to be associate secretary of the National Council of Churches' Division of Home Missions. Dr. Hoyer was speaking in Atlantic City last week at the annual meeting of the National Lutheran Council (representing eight church bodies and more than 5,000,000 U.S. churchgoers...
Religious Lines. Kennedy might figure on an automatic advantage with the 1,200,000 fellow Roman Catholics who make up 30% of the total population. Congregationalist Humphrey expects an automatic advantage with the 1,500,000 Protestants, especially the 850,000 members of the Lutheran synods; on the other hand, he hopes to benefit from extensive campaigning by his fellow Minnesota Senator, Eugene McCarthy, a Roman Catholic. The Catholics of various national origins (Polish, Italian, German, Irish) are concentrated in the populous industrial areas, such as Milwaukee and La Crosse...
...well designed to disprove any lingering notions Moscow's Patriarch Alexis might have that the W.C.C. was "a political tool of Western imperialism." Under the leadership of World Council General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft (Dutch Reformed), the delegation consisted of: British Anglican Francis House; U.S. Lutheran Dr. O. Frederick Nolde, director of the W.C.C.'s Commission on International Affairs; Greek Orthodox Dr. Nick Nissiotis; and Burma Baptist U Kyaw Than, administrative secretary of the East Asia Christian Conference...
...traditional sites of the landing place of Noah's Ark. There were banquets and church services, meetings with Patriarch Alexis and Metropolitan Nikolai (Russian Orthodoxy's foreign expert), talks with leaders of the Russian Baptists (who claim a membership of 3,000,000) and the Lutheran churches of the Baltic States...
Soprano Nilsson's career has gathered slow momentum over the last decade. Born on a 'Swedish farm, she was still plowing fields when she was 18 ("My parents wanted I should be a good farmer") and singing in the local Lutheran church choir. Then a neighboring choirmaster started giving her vocal lessons, persuaded her to enter the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. Delayed by the war, she made her first real splash in 1947 with the Stockholm Opera singing Verdi's Lady Macbeth. Gradually she developed a repertory that now includes all the Wagnerian soprano parts...