Word: pastors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German Protestantism (TIME, March 9), the Communists of East Germany have arrested five ministers in the past month. Last week congregations in West Germany got the first word of the kind of charges the Communists were making against them. The people's court at Chemnitz had convicted popular Pastor Erich Schuman, a member of a small sect in the Evangelical Church, for "breaking the law for the protection of peace." That...
...trial was secret; no church observers were permitted to attend. But a few details filtered back to Berlin. Pastor Schuman had been charged with violating two articles of the law against: 1) "instigation to boycott democratic institutions" 2) "glorification of capitalism...
...None of Pastor Schuman's friends could think of anything he had done to account for the boycotting charge, but a refugee to West Berlin supplied a clue to the minister's "glorification of capitalism." In a lecture to young Evangelical churchmen early this year, Schuman had told a story of an English millionaire who never belonged to any organized religion but left his money to a church when he died...
...Pastor Ye Yun Ho, 34, of Korea has much to bind him to the U.S. He was educated by U.S. missionaries at Korea's Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Later, G.I.s chipped in to help him build a church for Seoul's dead-end kids, and many U.S. Christians sent him money when they read about his work in TIME (Feb. 16, 1948 et seq.). Now, at last, Pastor Ye had come...
Pfeiffer directed the 1928-29 excavations at Nuzi, Iraq, conducted by the Harvard-Baghdad School. A noted Biblical scholar, he was pastor of the Methodist Church in Sanborn, N.Y., from 1916 to 1919 and editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature from 1943 to 1947. In 1950 he served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis...