Word: lutherans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Construction of a $200,000 church on Winthrop Street, behind the Indoor Athletic Building, will begin as soon as demolition of a three-story red brick tenement is completed, it was learned last night. The church, which will serve Lutheran students of Greater Boston, is being built by the congregation of University Lutheran Church...
...Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church...
...Lutherans took issue with the cardinal on a matter of fundamental principle: the separation of church and state, "a cherished ideal of all American Lutherans since they first arrived on American soil 300 years ago." Lutherans did not seek federal aid to education, declared Dr. John W. Behnken, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the most conservative of the large Lutheran groups.* Even if the Government should offer help to private schools, Dr. Behnken said, "there must be a clear understanding that no Government assistance can be given to support the instructional program of church schools. If there...
Careful Reading. "If Mrs. Roosevelt's discussion were really anti-Catholic," Dr. Behnken reasoned, "it would be anti-Lutheran, too. Lutherans have as much enthusiasm for protecting the best interests of their church, their schools and their children as the Roman Catholics have. Careful reading of Mrs. Roosevelt's statements in her discussion of federal aid to schools convinces us that they were not hostile to religion or to any individual church...
...Swede would be free to leave the Lutheran Church without joining any other Christian community (he is now required to join another Christian church). ¶All non-Lutheran pastors would be allowed to officiate at weddings (only Lutherans, Methodists, Jews and Roman Catholics may now do so). ¶Permission to establish Catholic convents and monasteries in Sweden, denied since 1595, would once again be granted. ¶Teachers of all Christian denominations would be allowed to teach in all school levels (non-Lutherans are now barred from teaching in elementary schools). ¶Non-Lutherans would have to pay only one-half...