Word: protestante
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"As monasteries go, Taizè is young- a full millennium younger than the nearby medieval abbey of Cluny. Moreover, though it now includes 13 Roman Catholic members, Taizè was founded as a Protestant community in 1940. A Swiss theology student named Roger Schutz, then 25, came to France looking...
Sporadic street violence has been a fact of life for so long in Belfast that residents of the city refer cynically to "recreational rioters" - youths thought to spend weekend nights tossing bricks at each other and the police, only to retreat when the icy Irish rain or the working week...
The unrest kicked off after a march by the Protestant Orange Order was diverted about 100 yards to avoid a Catholic neighborhood. Marchers clashed with police who blocked their preferred route, and were joined quickly by members of two loyalist paramilitary groups. They coordinated attacks that spread to towns outside...
Protestant leaders say this week's riots are symptomatic of their community's deepening detachment from the peace process: A narrow majority of Protestants initially favored the 1998 Good Friday accord, but have since turned against it. That's mainly because in the 11-year struggle to get the IRA...
The rioting cast a pall over the British and Irish governments' hopes of using momentum generated by the IRA's disarmament declaration to restore a stable local government in early 2006. Mitchell Reiss, a U.S. State Department envoy, came to Belfast this week to help pave the way for a...