Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to need more support from the tangled web of the city government's bewildered bureaucracy. Police and churches, too, come in for a share of the blame. The work of police youth squads has been criticized by many specialists. Says the Rev. George B. Ford, pastor of the Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church: "There is a failure of the churches to reach out and seize the opportunity which exists. Segregation in the congregation enhances segregation on the streets. We segregate our housing projects by income. We drive out the more successful members, and we end up by encouraging...
Through World War II, Pastor Etienne Mathiot of the French Reformed Church gave .refuge to hundreds of fleeing Jews, shot-down British pilots, escaped French prisoners and resistance fighters. Last year at his home in Belfort, near the Swiss border, he gave sanctuary to another hunted man. Si Ali Lahouedi, a student sought by the French police as a member of Algeria's Front de Liberation National. After hiding Si Ali in his house for weeks, Pastor Mathiot drove the fugitive to Switzerland. French police arrested the minister shortly after his return, charged him with treason. The trial stirred...
Clergymen, politicians, resistance heroes came forward to defend Pastor Mathiot. Said Charles Westphal, vice president of the French Protestant Federation and a veteran of the wartime French underground: "Mathiot's action is justified by the prevalence of torture in Algeria ... He obeyed the highest moral law there is. His act is symptomatic of the great unrest in French consciences today." Other signs of unrest: the French Reformed Church, as well as the Catholic Church, has repeatedly drawn attention to abuses in Algeria. Speaking not only against excessive use of violence there but against bitter anti-Algerian propaganda at home...
...Mathiot explained his motives: "A hunted man is a hunted man. A wounded man is a wounded man. He was wounded mortally. He begged for the safety of a presbytery in the name of Jesus Christ . . . There is hope in an act of love. I acted as a Protestant pastor and as a Christian...
...judge handed down his verdict-guilty. For Student Rapine: three years in jail. For Pastor Mathiot: eight months. "I put my conscience above justice," said Mathiot. "I would do it again...