Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Don't marry out of your Church, or you'll regret it all your life." So all Roman Catholic priests and many Protestant ministers warn their flocks. But most young people in love believe that love will conquer everything-including church dogma, ritual and customs.
For several years a group of 15 private schools near the most fashionable part of Manhattan's Park Avenue has held an annual series of nondenominational vesper services. At the first of this year's services, held in the Episcopal St. James' Church, the Rev. Laurance I...
After the war was over, Bishop Wurm, at 76, was elected chairman of the council of the provisional Evangelical Church in Germany. The task before him was to pick up the pieces that Hitler had scattered when he forced the break-up of Germany's Protestant federation in 1933...
Bishop Wurm had not only succeeded in uniting the Protestant churches administratively ; he had also taken a significant step towards a spiritual unification. The new constitution, while allowing each church to retain its own viewpoint on Holy Communion, states that all German Protestants can partake of the sacrament in any...
Said new Chairman Dibelius: "The Church in the east is already firmly united in its stand. Now that the Protestant Church of all Germany has joined with us, we can carry on the fight with renewed determination."