Word: presbyterian
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Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met several members of a splinter sect known as the Free Presbyterian Church, and soon she became a Protestant. Her father, a shipyard worker, and her mother were horrified; so was the parish priest. There were family conferences, prayers and tears. Then Maura Lyons disappeared...
...this globe-girdling enterprise." Thus the Rev. Theodore A. Gill. 37. managing editor of the Christian Century, describes his personal background for a four-month trip around the world last year to see at first hand what the Protestant missionary enterprise is really like. In the current Christian Century, Presbyterian Gill concludes an eight-part report on the countries of Southeast Asia-the area chosen by the National Council of Churches' Board of Foreign Missions for special study during 1957. Gist of his report...
...Charlie Shedd, now pastor of the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church of Houston, lost 100 Ibs. (from around 300 to 195) over a three-year period of prayer and medically supervised fasting, which he describes in a new book, Pray Your Weight Away (Lippincott; $2.95). "The spiritual approach to reducing," writes Pastor Shedd, "is a sure road to healing your obesity, permanently." But certain preconditions are necessary...
...majority of the 250 presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. (northern) has approved a proposed merger with the United Presbyterian Church. Combined with United Presbyterian enthusiasm for the union, the formation of a 3,000,000-member new denomination is thus virtually certain. Its title: the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America...
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