Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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.
An old grievance stirred them to this unusual action. Last autumn, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops charged that Protestant missionaries in predominantly Catholic South and Central America were "a disturbing factor," and suggested that they should stay away. Since then the U.S. Catholic press has kept the issue alive.
Liberalism in religion came in for some harsh words last week. In Chicago's Hotel La Salle, for the first convention of the National Association of Evangelicals for United Action, nearly 1,000 conservatives and fundamentalists gathered from all parts of the U.S. Some belonged to the big Protestant...
In peace, besides making an average of 15 rescues a day, the Coast Guard does everything from breaking ice and chasing smugglers to protecting seals in the Bering Sea. Some of its home-water patrol has now been taken over by the Coast Guard's Temporary Reserve, civilians who...
People have turned to inspirational reading more quickly, and in far greater numbers, than they did in World War I. The current national best-seller list includes two novels with religious themes. Jewish refugee Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette (a story of Our Lady of Lourdes) has sold...