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Last week, in an unprecedented change of heart, the American Baptist Churches (membership: 1.6 million; the name was changed in 1972) became the first Protestant denomination to abandon its eager embrace of the prochoice position. After a three-year task force study, the A.B.C.'s decision-making General Board, meeting...
As Marino acknowledges, blacks and Catholicism in the U.S. have never been completely at ease with each other. In the Republic's early days, blacks found more welcoming accommodation for their religious sensibilities in Protestant styles of worship and theology. Catholics, themselves strangers in a strange land, did not proselytize...
His appeal went unheeded. Two days after the Milltown attack, a 21-year-old Protestant woman, with no known connections to the security forces, was shot dead near the Irish border on Friday. Her 24-year-old boyfriend was wounded in the same attack. The IRA has claimed responsibility for...
The assailant was quickly identified as Michael Stone, 32, a Belfast Protestant who is also being questioned about earlier terrorist acts. The Ulster Defense Association, a leading Protestant paramilitary organization, denied any affiliation with him and claimed to have had no involvement in the cemetery attack.
In an apprehensive Whitehall, the cemetery outrage and its violent aftermath conjured up the nightmare of more British troops being caught in cross fire between Protestants and Catholics. Authorities believe both Protestant and Catholic extremists in Ulster have been stockpiling weapons. In response, a number of opposition Labor Party politicians...