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Fifty-three years ago Brazil broke its official ties with Catholicism, opened the country to other faiths. Two generations of Protestant missionary work have gained about 1,000,000 adherents to various churches: Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Pentecostal. Fourteen-fifteenths of the work goes on in a 300-mile-wide coastal zone extending from Rio Grande do Sul to Para; the tiny remainder lies in the vast inland rural areas...
Although the Navy's chaplains have seen much active service, only three have been killed so far (two others are listed as missing) in World War II. Two were killed at Pearl Harbor: Thomas Leroy Kirkpatrick (Presbyterian) and Moysius Herman Schmitt (Catholic). Within the past month the name of each has been given to a newly launched destroyer escort...
Protestant Church bodies do not make a habit of complaining to the State Department about the behavior of another Church, but last week two of them did just that. The Reformed Church in America (200.000 members), and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.* (500,000 members) were the complainers...
...confused with the much larger (over two million members) Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., of which Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin is Moderator...
...Detroit, speaking before the Presbyterian Church's General Assembly, Wendell L. Willkie added a chapter to his recent book One World (more than 1,000,000 copies to date) on the impressions American missionaries made on him during his world trip...