Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SAN DIEGO: Just who are the delegates to the Republican convention? A new TIME/CNN poll shows they are more likely to be older, wealthier and more conservative than the GOP as a whole. Delegates are also more often men and Protestant. Some 61 percent of the delegates say they attend...
Viewed from one direction, the scene early last week in Portadown, Northern Ireland, evoked a country fair. The meadows surrounding the Protestant church Drumcree, 25 miles southwest of Belfast, were dotted with people, tents and a large marquee. But the sight on the opposite slopes was anything but bucolic. Two...
By week's end all that armature saw service. An RUC decision to obstruct a traditional Protestant march sparked three days of rioting as Unionists protested the perceived insult to their heritage. Then, when the march was allowed to proceed, Catholics exploded with protests of their own that injured hundreds...
This is "marching season" in Ulster, a time when Protestants commemorate July 12, the day in 1690 that William of Orange vanquished his Catholic rival, King James II, at the Battle of the Boyne. The victory established England's Protestant ascendancy in Ireland, and it was in memory of this...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Riot police and British soldiers who have been trying to contain Protestant marchers have made a 180-turn in their strategy to contain violence that has broken out in Northern Ireland since Sunday. Instead of trying to prevent the marches, which celebrate 300-year-old victories over...