Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Le Chambon is a Protestant village in the Cévennes mountains. Even in France, few have heard of it. The ignorance is not surprising; goodness is not the sort of thing that arouses historians.
It all began at a Mennonite caucus in Canada where the church members decided that they would look for a new promised land, a remote country in which to found a farming colony. Such migrations are nothing new to the Mennonites, who number about 600,000 worldwide. Founded in 1525...
"Not only does an all-Ireland proposal incur the opposition of the Protestant community, but it doesn't even have majority support in the Catholic community," Cushnahan added.
"With the British referee out of the ring, Catholic and Protestant para-militaries would each be going for victory over the other," he said, adding, "with such diametrically opposed objectives, a civil war would be inevitable."
Behind the scenes, Laborites were trying desperately to woo minor party M.P.s whose votes might keep the government in office. Suddenly, money was found for Welsh quarrymen suffering from silicosis where none had existed before; almost as suddenly three Welsh Nationalists decided to stay with the government. Labor's...