Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty Maura Lyons was 15 years old and a member of Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority (34.2%) when she went to work a year ago as a stitcher in a Belfast garment factory. There she met several members of a splinter sect known as the Free Presbyterian Church...
But that was not Maura's voice at all, said her father, and the Catholic accusations and Free Presbyterian counteraccusations went on and on in Belfast, The controversy bounded across the Irish Sea when Reporter Norman Lucas of London's News Chronicle (circ. 1,252,778) wrote a...
. . . At seminary there were classes in missions, with emphasis on the length and breadth of this globe-girdling enterprise." Thus the Rev. Theodore A. Gill. 37. managing editor of the Christian Century, describes his personal background for a four-month trip around the world last year to see at first...
When the Chicago Tribune's WGN-TV announced a showing of the film Martin Luther last December, protests poured in from Roman Catholic viewers, and the station canceled the film because of "the emotional reaction" (TIME, Dec. 31). Last week the counterreaction hit WGN.*Armed with 150,000 signatures...
Author Kendrick, director of the British Museum, shows how the earthquake set a generation of robust optimists to muttering of doomsday. Most people in Europe believed that the earthquake was a divine visitation like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Portugal, the church was convinced that the people of...