Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Turkey, a wealthy American tourist, recoiling from the native bread, which was flat as a bathmat, was overjoyed at the sight of crisp, crusted, American-style loaves. He sought out the baker, found he was a Protestant missionary named Cyrus Hamlin. Missionary Hamlin convinced wealthy, grateful Tourist Christopher Robert...
What happens in the tiny Mexican village of San Felipe de Santiago Yeche, few outsiders have ever known or cared. But when the fanatically Catholic Indians of Santiago Yeche expressed disapproval of two Protestant missionaries by murdering them, Bishop David Ruesga of the Protestant Church of God protested to Mexico...
Violence & Faith. To affable, middle-aged Protestant Bishop Ruesga the incident was just an incident in the continuous, often violent conflict between Mexico's 20,000,000 Catholics and 180,000 Protestants. To the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, Luis María Martínez, the tragedy at Santiago...
Bearers of the Word. In the rear of his church Bishop Ruesga trains a small class of earnest young Indians to become evangélicos-Protestant teachers. His Church of God, though one of Mexico's smaller Protestant sects, is noted for its missionary zeal.
Most important activity of the leading Protestant groups in Mexico (Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists) is teaching the Mexicans to read and distributing copies of the Bible at minimum cost. Catholics are not pleased with the fact that Indians can buy a well-made Protestant Bible for 6½ pesos ($1.35...