Word: pastors
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...Japan now has 512,450 Christians, according to a survey by the weekly Christian News- 285,022 Protestants, 193,724 Roman Catholics, 33,704 Orthodox. ¶In Milwaukee, a jury of pastors found Lutheran Pastor Victor K. Wrigley, 35, guilty of heresy on five counts, including: "Denying the objective authority of the Holy Scripture" and "Denying the historical fact of the Virgin Birth." Minneapolis' Paul E. Bishop, President of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church, said he would suspend Heretic Wrigley "without a doubt." ¶Women employees of Miami department stores have organized "Christlike Christmas Parties...
...Mobile, Ala., Dr. Frederick H. Olert, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va., raised a religious storm by telling a Reformation Day gathering that "the Roman Catholic Church is not at home in America. It wants to make this country predominantly a Roman Catholic country. [It] can and will win America unless Protestants heal their divisions and get together." Retorted the Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, Jesuit president of Alabama's Spring Hill College: "If there ever was a time when all Christians ought to stand together, regardless of recognized differences, this seems to be the hour...
...this week, the Lone Star Steel Co. will open a new $40,000 building where the company will make no steel, transact no business. The building is a chapel. There, a fulltime, specially trained Methodist chaplain will spend his time primarily offering aid and counsel to troubled workers. Similar pastor-counselor or devotional programs are fast spreading to dozens of other U.S. corporations. Next week in Cleveland, a prime topic at the National Council of Churches meeting will be the new industrial chaplain. The Northern California Council has already drafted a program to spread the gospel of industrial chaplains...
...their first public meeting, Pastor Davie and his committee expected 60 people, eventually had to accommodate 160, about 30 of them men. Some had come from as far as 30 miles away. Last week the executive committee of the new club met to plan its first dance. With the tentative name of TPM (Tuesday evening), the club plans to meet the third Tuesday of every month and to hold some kind of social activity between regular meetings. Says 45-year-old Preacher Davie: "The way they responded to the church relationship is wonderful and surprising. People resist so often when...
...doctors, psychologists and laymen, who make themselves available at all times to help any of their 200-odd fellow members. But it is the church itself that seems to be the most help. "I was touched by the look of forlornness on these people," said Hollywood Presbyterian's Pastor Raymond I. Lindquist. "There's no glamour about them, just a climate of failure. You could call it a parade into darkness. But as soon as they get religion to fit into their needs, you see them brightening up. Suddenly, there's a twinge of hope...