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Another bishop who dropped into Washington to witness the Episcopal consecration of Dr. Angus Dun was Dr. Sigurgeir Sigurdsson, Lutheran bishop of Iceland. Dr. Sigurdsson was on his way back to Reykjavik after representing Iceland's Government at the silver jubilee of the Icelandic National League in Winnipeg. He also had met as many as possible of the 12,000 Icelanders in the U.S. and assured Americans that U.S. troops are happy in Iceland. He concedes that the sudden influx of thousands of servicemen into Iceland created problems. But they were no worse than those of any U.S. small...
...Italy, Chaplain Israel L. Yost, a Lutheran, is attached to a Fifth Army unit composed of Japanese-Americans. The men are 50% atheists, 25% Buddhists. But Chaplain Yost prayed with them before battle, and buried their dead with Christian rites. Last week 13 of his men became Christians. About 50 others are preparing...
...January 25, Rev. Frederick B. Kellogg, Episcopalian; January 26, Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Presbyterian; January 27, Rev. Leonard G. Clough, Congregational; January 28, Rev. D. J. Fitzpatrick, Roman Catholic; January 31, Rev. Hobart F. Goewey, Methodist; February 2, Rev. Irving R. Murray, Unitarian; February 3, Rev. Edmund A. Steimle, Lutheran; February 4, Judah J. Shapiro, Hillel Foundation...
...Lutheran Chaplains of the Synodical Conference were guests of the Army and Navy Commission of the Lutheran Church Wednesday night at a dinner-conference in the Harvard Faculty Club. The Commission will be represented by the Reverend O. A. Sauer of Richmond, Virginia...
...Second and third largest groups: the Synodical Conference with 1,640,788 members; the American Lutheran Conference with 1,578,059 members. Total number of Lutherans in the U.S.: 4,963,919, a gain of 66,256 over last year...