Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Re your analysis of the Unitarian Universalist Church's attempt to reconsider its principles and purposes [June 27]: our decline in membership since 1975 has been 9%, not 31% as you reported, a figure that parallels the losses in other Protestant denominations.
In the 15 months since General Efraín Ríos Montt seized power in Guatemala, the born-again Protestant has sharply reduced a serious guerrilla threat, attacked corruption and cut down on the activities of death squads. In an effort to win popular support for his policies, he...
The stereotype of small town reactionary fanaticism is often as much of a myth as that of the Red Menace on the Charles, insists Elliott. He points out that his family, for example, as well as other members of the Anabaptist Protestant sect to which they belong, have always stressed...
Although he did not mention him by name, Solzhenitsyn sharply attacked Protestant Evangelist Billy Graham, last year's Templeton prizewinner, for "his deplorable statement that he had not noticed the persecution of religion in the U.S.S.R." during a visit last year. Solzhenitsyn also accused the World Council of Churches...
The National Council of Churches, a loose alliance of 32 Protestant and Orthodox denominations, has been attacked recently for supporting leftist causes in the U.S. and abroad. Last week the N.C.C. had another explosive issue on its hands: homosexuality. Meeting in San Francisco, the 207 delegates on the N.C.C.'...