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Died The Rev. Heinrich Niemoller, 81, father of the Rev. Martin Niemoller, imprisoned leader of the Confessional movement which opposed Nazi domination of the German Lutheran Church in Elberfeld, Germany...
...boards was the Rev. George T. Gruman, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. Mr. Gruman's district is a drab and musty slum, where elevated trains scream past, sidewalks are dirty or nonexistent, and unpainted picket fences fail to dignify the disheveled houses. Before Mr. Gruman, the Lutheran businessman and the president of a Hebrew school who sit with him on Local Board 229, paraded the poor of the district...
...exiled Royal Government of Norway advanced ?50,000 last week to help keep the war-orphaned Norwegian Lutheran missions going in China, the Cameroons, South Africa. Manchuria, Madagascar. Cut off from home support by the Nazi invasion, the Norse missionaries will get their aid through the Rev. Johan Arnd Aasgaard of Minneapolis, president of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America since 1925. Administrator Aasgaard believes this is the first time in history that a government has financed a church's foreign missions, considers it a dramatic proof that "the Allied forces are fighting for Christianity and democracy...
When it was ordered that mention of exiled King Haakon be stricken from prayers, Norwegian Lutheran ministers developed the practice of pausing while congregations thunderously filled in the deletion. With other insignia banned, loyal Norsemen now wear in their buttonholes bread-ration cards, still stamped with King Haakon's arms...
...Bravest resistance was in Norway, where the Nazis ordered police to attend all church services and report on any "trespasses" against the "New Order"-a result of the recent letter from the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. Most significant signer: Dr. Eyvind Berggrav, Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway, who at first publicly urged the Norwegians to cooperate with the Nazis, but has now apparently realized how fully they threaten everything Norse and Christian. Despite the police, Norwegian congregations continued to pray for exiled King Haakon and the Lutherans were reported backed in their struggle by other...