Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For much of its early existence Harvard's function was primarily to train young men for the Protestant ministry; the University was founded in piety, and, some say, that piety lives on (it's just a little harder to find these days, having become sort of secularized). On the surface...
Reliving the past, often its worst chapters, seems to be a specialty of Northern Ireland. Six years ago this month, a company of British soldiers was rushed into Londonderry to put down bloody riots that raged out of control after Protestant Ulstermen had staged their traditional Apprentice Boys of Deny...
The Londonderry fracas was just one incident in an anniversary week that left eleven dead and 150 injured across Ulster. Among those killed was four-year-old Siobhan McCabe, felled by a sniper's bullet apparently intended for a British soldier. Another was Samuel Llewellyn, 29, a Protestant truck...
Indefinite Truce. By the end of last week, the six-year casualty totals in Ulster's long-running sectarian warfare between a Protestant majority (1,037,600) and a Catholic minority (474,900) stood at 1,290 dead and 12,807 injured. Since the militant Provisional wing of the...
Despite the increasing bloodshed, leading Catholic and Protestant politicians began a new round of talks last week in preparation for the Constitutional Convention that is scheduled to reconvene on Sept. 9. Although they have spent several months skirting the difficult issues, convention delegates know they can no longer postpone dealing...