Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What are the sources of Protestant-Roman Catholic tension in the U.S.? Last week the Jesuit weekly America listed three areas of friction in a lead article (written for CBS's Church of the Air radio show, but denied clearance because it was judged too controversial) by Editor in...
...Film Commission, totted up the 1956 figures on films with Catholic and Protestant themes and happily announced the result: four to one in favor of the Protestants. Lutheran Heimrich gave most of the credit for better Protestant billing to the Council of Churches' campaign to inform producers about Protestantism. One lost battle of the campaign: the council appealed to ministers for film scripts, got several and rejected them all. The flaw: "They would never get the seal of approval of the Production Code Administration, for in part (e.g., by portraying pastors bossed around by church-board members) they show...
"There is an underground method of dealing with this girl which rivals those operating in occupied countries during the war," said Republican Labor M.P. Harry Diamond, a Catholic, in Northern Ireland's House of Commons. "There have been evasion, lies, attempted blackmail and an obvious conspiracy." While police of...
After years of persecution, in 1457 the peasant Hussites formed their own group and called it Unitas Fratrum-Unity of the Brethren-the official title of the Moravian Church today. By the end of the 16th century, the Brethren were the dominant Protestant church in Bohemia. But after the Thirty...
Long before the great wave of Protestant missionary activity in the late igth century, the Moravians had established missions all over the world; today there are three times as many Moravians in the foreign mission churches as there are in the home churches. Moravians founded a city in Pennsylvania and...