Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many churchmen in The Netherlands are now behind the barbed wire of concentration camps. One pastor was sent there when, after the Nazis had sworn that only 300 people had been killed by their bombing of Rotterdam, he held a memorial service, said: "We are here to pray for those who have died of violence in this city. But before we pray for all the dead, let us pray first for the dead of our own congregation. In all Rotterdam 300 people have been killed. Let us pray for the 1,300 of this 300 that we of this church...
...before Baal. And behind these 7,000 and more, stand millions who are united today in one common creed. This union needs no demonstrations. One demonstration is made by them each week, every Sunday morning, when they go to church." To the Nazis' annoyance, Dutch churches still pray for "Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, other members of the Royal Family and The Netherlands Government." A typical Calvinist leader is outspoken 71-year-old ex-Premier Hendrikus Colijn, editor of the Standaard. At a mass meeting recently at Scheveningen he said: "Whoever knows anything about our people knows that we will...
...property can ask the Court to pick the proper claimant only if it can produce bona fide rival claims. Before the Court will consider the case, the rival claimants may settle privately, or simply decide not to press their claims. All the Chase can do is wait and pray...
...sound unlucky," stated Minister Matsuoka, "but in my innermost heart I fear the coming year will prove a most tragic and unfortunate one for all mankind. I pray that God and all God-fearing people will cooperate with me in saving 1941 from being the first year of the decline and fall of modern civilization...
...Cologne the Nazis were able to get Catholic churches to pray not for victory but "for our soldiers." The prayer also included a pointed reference to Saint Conrad of Parzham, a Bavarian monk whom Pope Pius XI canonized in 1934 as an example of deep humility as opposed to Naziism's "racial pride which is neither Christian nor human." In Munster, the massive, adroit bishop, Count Clemens August von Galen, instead of telling his diocese to pray for victory, ordered daily recitation of the prayer: "Lord, grant us peace! Queen of Heaven, pray...