Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than half the voters are aware that Senator Kennedy is a Catholic. Only 47% of all voters can identify Kennedy's religion, and even fewer Protestant voters (42%) know that he is Catholic. In his most recent tabulation, without reference to religion, Gallup found that Kennedy led Vice...
¶ In New Haven, Conn., three Protestant clergymen filed a suit in Superior Court to contest the constitutionality of Connecticut's 79-year-old law forbidding the spread of birth control information. The law, originally coupled with a ban on the sale, distribution or printing of obscene literature, has...
A century ago the first Protestant missionaries set foot in Japan.† What they found was not merely indifference or suspicion, but a ferocious hatred of Christianity that had been fostered by three centuries of relentless persecution. In last week's Christian Century, Presbyterian Missionary Richard H. Drummond tells...
Frontier College operates on a tiny budget: $70,000 this year, most from private gifts, part from the Canadian government. But since 1899 it has taught more than 250,000 men-some of whom have taught a thing or two to the teachers. The Rt. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr...
Roman Catholics have the fastest-growing educational system in the country. Catholic grade and high schools have nearly quadrupled in 50 years to 4,700,100 students-one out of every eight U.S. school children. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment, as interpreted by the...