Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestants are making headway among Italy's Roman Catholics. So said the Vatican last week in a report compiled by the Paulist Fathers, who were assigned three years ago to survey Italian Protestantism, much of it ministered by U.S. missionaries. The country's 200,000 Protestants in a population of 48 million were often subject to police harassment and refused permits necessary for Protestant public activities, until last month, when Italy's highest court declared this requirement unconstitutional. The Vatican is far from pleased by such relaxation of the rules, asserts that the Protestants ("this condemned peril...
During 1956, Protestants converted 475 Catholics in Rome. This figure sounds small, but, as the Vatican report points out, it is roughly eleven times the number of Italian Protestants in Rome converted to Catholicism. Warned the report: "Agents of this propaganda don't present themselves as Protestants. They call...
* The outgrowth of a heretical sect founded in France by rich Merchant Peter Waldo in 1176, which moved to the Piedmont Alps and became Protestant early in the Reformation.
Meanwhile, Pierce had come to England too, as tutor for the son of a prominent Catholic peer; he tried to take a strong hand in running Cornelia's society. In Rome after their separation, the Connellys had seen each other every ten days; but in Protestant England even the...
The Iron Curtain was successfully scaled by the U.S.'s Olympic Hammer-Throw Champion Harold Connolly, 25, who, having shaken free of Red tape, planned this week to marry his true love, Czechoslovakia's Olympic Discus-Throw Champion Olga Filcotova, 24, in Prague. With famed Czech Distance Runner...