Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For the first time in half a century of domination over Ulster politics, Northern Ireland's Unionist Party appeared last week to be irrevocably split. Only four days after Brian Faulkner, leader of the party, was sworn in as Chief Executive of Ulster's new coalition government, militant...
Changing Lives. Key 73's most significant accomplishment, apart from the distribution of 50 million Bibles or scriptural excerpts, was its promotion of new kinds of interdenominational evangelism. There were many cordial meetings among such various participants as Southern Baptists, Roman Catholics and Salvation Army members and among WASPS...
One of the casualties of the Yom Kippur War was the growing ecumenical spirit between Christians and Jews. In fact, like the 1967 war before it, the war this autumn shocked Christians into sometimes sharp reappraisals of Israel, and shook Jews with the fear of antiSemitism. One Protestant ecumenical expert...
During the war the governing board of the National Council of Churches demanded a Middle East arms embargo by the U.S. and U.S.S.R.-a demand that could influence only the U.S. "If the resolution had been taken seriously," complains Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, "Israel would...
Whitelaw once summed up his personal and political style by admitting: "I rather like to be liked." When he first arrived in Ulster, he threw open the doors of his office in Stormont Castle to politicians and community delegations. "I know you expect me to fail," he candidly told a...