Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic Assumptionist priest, who will replace a fellow Assumptionist expelled by the Soviets in March (TIME, March 14). Father Dion will minister to American Catholics in Moscow. Less than 24 hours after his visa was issued, the U.S. granted a visa to Archbishop Boris of the Russian Orthodox Church, who was forced to leave the U.S. earlier this year when his temporary visa expired...
Kidnaped. In due course, Dutch Jewish organizations and The Netherlands Commission for War Orphans applied to the Van Moorst sisters to transfer Anneke Beekman to a Jewish foster family so that she could be raised in the faith of her Orthodox Jewish parents. But the sisters objected-first that the Beekmans had not been really Orthodox, then that the proposed Jewish foster family was not religious enough. Geertruida Van Moorst pleaded that the Dutch courts were putting the theoretical importance of a Jewish family background above the importance of the loving care she had lavished on Anneke. Replied the Commission...
...proud of being a Turk and I approved of the Turkish mob's demonstration against the Greek Orthodox Church. That so-called religion has been misusing its privileges . . . It is not really a church of God; it is simply a political party belonging to the Greek government...
Membership in six major U.S. religious groups: Protestant, 57,124,142; Roman Catholic, 32,403,332; Jewish, 5,500,000; Eastern Orthodox, 2,024,219; Old Catholic and Polish National Catholic, 367,918; Buddhist...
...There is no agreement as to what constitutes a church member. "For example, Jewish [groups] estimate the number of Jews in communities having congregations. The Eastern Orthodox churches include the persons in the cultural or nationality group served. Roman Catholics, and a few Protestant bodies, number all baptized persons, including children, in the membership. Most Protestant bodies include only so-called adults . . . persons usually beyond 13 years of age, as members. Yet in the Yearbook of American Churches, 1945, it was estimated that about 5,000,000 members of Protestant churches were under 13 years...