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The life of this strange mystic was said to have been filled with "former friends." But though he estranged many, Bloy brought into the Roman Catholic fold many an apostate or proselyte to whom the church's more official voices had sounded too worldly and well-fed. One convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Passionate Pilgrim | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

In one camp Nazis tried to censor books in the prison libraries. They put books they did not want their prison mates to read on separate shelves and passed the word that these shelves were verboten. Army officials soon put a stop to that. But positive Nazi propaganda is hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Legion of Despair | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

"It is not the function of this office to proselyte for any branch of the service; but anyone planning to make up his mind had better do so quickly. It takes time to enlist men, and an application filed shortly before December 1 may not get through the machinery in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Official Deadline For ERC Set at December 1 | 11/12/1942 | See Source »

Last month Catholic Digest printed an article by Episcopalian John Erskine in which he termed Protestant missions south of the Rio Grande "the work of pure destruction," urged their abandonment. Catholic Digest in turn suggested that such missionary activity "violates our Good Neighbor policy" and that the U.S. "should cease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sphere of Influence? | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

> In the U. S. alone Witnesses claim 1,000,000 followers, are prepared to proselyte in Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Bohemian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek. Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lettish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Yiddish, as well as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses Examined | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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