Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adams also happens to hold a seat, which he has refused to occupy, in the British Parliament. He had left the Catholic stronghold of West Belfast to appear in court on a charge of disorderly conduct, stemming from the parliamentary election campaign. The Sinn Fein leader and four followers were...
The new I.R. A. shooting binge and the Protestant counterattack all but overshadowed a guardedly optimistic report, released last week by Ulster's chief constable, showing that terrorist incidents in 1983 had dropped to the lowest point since 1970. Events in Ulster also threatened to set back the efforts...
How can Christianity best serve as an effective advocate for the world's poor and oppressed? One answer is a movement known as "liberation theology." Its proponents, who view history in Marxist terms, work to raise the consciousness of the downtrodden in what they see as a class struggle...
No erotic or pastoral turn can long allay the great sorrow of Irish history. Sometimes Heaney confronts it head on, as in "Requiem for the Croppies," composed in memory of the Catholic farm boys who fought the Protestant armies nearly two centuries ago, "on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave," where...
DIED. Martin Niemöller, 92, German theologian, preacher and pacifist who spent seven years in Nazi concentration camps for his outspoken opposition to Adolf Hitler; in Wiesbaden, West Germany. A U-boat commander during World War I, he became a minister in the Lutheran Evangelical Church in 1924. Though...