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Word: protestantism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The candidate is an ordained and militant Protestant minister, crusading to wrench his party from the clutches of the moderates he scorns. But he does so < in the manner of a polished TV performer: he is immaculately attired in a dark suit, handsome, poised, physically commanding, capable of speaking with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Faith | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

What Burrows will not change is the Army's religious philosophy or its military structure. The revival-minded Protestant group holds strictly to an eleven-point orthodox statement of doctrine and a literal interpretation of the Bible. It is so insistent upon simplicity in worship that it shuns all services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New General Takes Charge | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

The island's television and radio stations carried live broadcasts of the trial of Luc Desyr, 62, chief of secret police for Baby Doc and before him for his father Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, who died in 1971. The trial, on charges that included illegal arrest, torture and murder, provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti View Inside a Killing Machine | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Just after evening prayers, the cloistered silence of the hilltop Carmelite convent in Marawi City was shattered by shouts and shrieks. Thirteen armed men barged in and took ten Filipino nuns hostage. Less than 24 hours later, another group of men grabbed Brian Lawrence, an American Protestant missionary living at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Cory's Crisis Management | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

The attendees were selected from among some 50,000 evangelists. Global sweep was one of Graham's goals, and it was attained: 185 nations and territories were represented; 80% of the preachers came from developing countries. In Nigeria, for example, organizers had tried to recruit at least one evangelist from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Summons to the Unknowns | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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