Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the Henan arrests, similar accounts of persecution have begun to spill out from nearly half of China's provinces, as well as Shanghai, its largest city. The operator of a small retail business tells a foreigner on a train in central China that several dozen house-church leaders...
The hundreds of arrests, occasional incidents of torture and other forms of harassment since mid-1983 constitute the first sweeping crackdown against Christian activity since the Communist regime instituted a measure of toleration in 1979. The repression is aimed especially at a zealous Protestant revival occurring among the unsanctioned house...
The Lost Colony is a play about the English colony that was established on Roanoke Island 22 years before the Jamestown folk first sailed into Chesapeake Bay and 35 years before the Mayflower put in at Plymouth. In 1584 Walter Raleigh's agents landed here; the environs were named...
To the growing dismay of conservative churchgoers in the U.S. and Europe, the World Council of Churches seems to have been moving increasingly away from its avowed purpose of fostering Christian unity. In recent years the ecumenical organization, which represents 301 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches with more than 400...
After graduating from Buenos Aires' Union Theological Seminary in 1950, he studied with renowned Protestant Theologian Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. Castro, married and the father of two children, has served as a pastor in Uruguay and Bolivia, and has held several administrative posts, including the presidency of Uruguay...