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...Protestantism, riddled by sectarianism, is pulling together in the National Council of Churches. Meanwhile, individual denominations are merging in outright organic unity-there have been dozens of such mergers in the past generation-and interdenominational courtship is being stepped up by Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake's proposal for merger of the Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and United Church of Christ (TIME cover...
...dominated by North Americans (21) and West Europeans (26) but with 18 Orthodox members and 28 Asians and Africans. The new presidents: the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey,- Archbishop of Canterbury; Pastor Martin Niemoeller, World War I submarine hero, president of the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in Hesse-Nassau, Germany; Presbyterian Layman Sir Francis Ibiam, Governor General of the Eastern Provinces of Nigeria; Archbishop lakovos of New York, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America; Methodist Layman Charles C. Parlin of Englewood, N.J.; and the Rev. Dr. David G. Moses, Principal of Hislop College, Nagpur. India...
...Hindus, Moslems, Jains and Buddhists gaped at their diversity. Archbishops and patriarchs, metropolitans and primates, bishops, canons, pastors and professors-capped, cassocked, bearded, bareheaded, in flowing robes or academic gowns, in business suits or sarongs-bodied forth the range and outreach of Christianity. Among them: Anglican Arthur Michael Ramsey, Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, German Evangelical Otto Dibelius, Episcopalian Arthur Lichtenberger, Greek Orthodox Lakovos...
...onetime missionary movement, now engaged in a vast handover to "younger" (indigenous) churches (TIME cover, April 13. 1960), became the World Council's Division of World Mission and Evangelism, under the leadership of one of Christendom's ablest ecumenists, Bishop Newbigin, who is 51, a onetime Presbyterian missionary, now the inspiring leader of the 14-year-old Church of South India...
...fund-raising drive for Negro voter registration in the South will begin at the University this Wednesday. Sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Coalition, the Young Democrats, and the Congregational-Presbyterian Student Fellowship, the drive is the first project undertaken by the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee, formed at the University last month...