Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"There is an element of elitism associated with Harvard--the view of a yankee protestant background, such as the Cabots `older family hertiage' image," Clark explains.
In writing about the Anglo-Irish Agreement and its effect on Northern Ireland ((LETTERS, May 11)), Ian Paisley Jr. says the agreement "endangers the civil rights of citizens . . . of the United Kingdom ((in)) Northern Ireland." He maintains that democracy there "has ceased to exist." Paisley is wrong on both points...
Nor were students the only South Koreans involved in what amounts to a deepening confrontation with Chun's rule. A congregation of about 1,200, including 800 Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen, took part in an overnight prayer vigil for political reform at the Ahyun Methodist Church in downtown Seoul...
Many a Protestant parson caught up in scandal has quietly been found guilty by an ecclesiastical panel and has then slipped from view. But last week a double defrocking was proclaimed to the world by the national head of the ministers' denomination. The ousted preachers are Jim Bakker, who confessed...
Badly shaken by the scandals, PTL last week put its debt at $65 million and began laying off 220 of its 2,000 employees. Assemblies Superintendent Carlson said the scandal "has been most painful, very difficult, embarrassing and humiliating" for his group, the fastest-growing Protestant denomination in the U.S...