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First order of business at the meeting was the unanimous election of Norway's 65-year-old Lutheran Primate, Bishop Eivind Berggrav, to succeed aged former Archbishop Erling Eidem of Sweden as one of the World Council's six presidents. Bishop Berggrav became something of a legend of Christian resistance during the war. Imprisoned by the Nazis in his summer cottage from 1942 to 1947, he still managed to direct the affairs of the underground church by escaping from his barbed-wire enclosure to meet with its leaders at night (TIME...
...brevity of your analysis of Pastor Bauer's reasons for opposing Freemasonry [TIME, June 26] is apt to lead the average reader to an unjustified bias against the Lutheran Church...
Redeemer Ev. Lutheran Church...
...Hanns Lilje, Lutheran pastor, was awakened from an afternoon nap in his house in Berlin by the violent ringing of the doorbell. He guessed at once that the two men at the door were secret police. Inside him a voice seemed to whisper, "Now, it's begun...
...Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which includes the Fisherville congregation, has long condemned Freemasonry as a "religious cult diametrically opposed to Christianity." Its clergymen have "challenged" a Lutheran if they knew he was a Mason, and confronted him with a choice between lodge and church...