Word: protestantism
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Talk about divine inspiration. Twenty-eight army recruits stood at attention at a swearing-in ceremony on May 6, each holding his weapon - a combination of spear and battle ax called a halberd - and listening intently to the boss' pep talk. "I hope that despite the heaviness of your service...
“We’re not highly evangelistic,” says Russell J. Schlecht, the pastor of Grace Street Church, a Protestant congregation that rents space in Old Cambridge Baptist Church and has attracted some of the converts interviewed. “We have a lot of...
DIED. BILLY WILDER, 95, sharply satirical screenwriter, prolific filmmaker and winner of six Academy Awards; in Los Angeles. Born in a village in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Wilder landed in Hollywood in 1934 as part of an influx of German EmigrEs fleeing Hitler's accession. Nominated for 12 Oscars as...
PAKISTAN Clampdown President Pervez Musharraf issued instructions to officials to step up moves against terrorist groups after a grenade attack on a Protestant church in Islamabad's diplomatic enclave during Sunday service killed five worshipers. Pakistan's Information Minister, Nisar Memon, blamed militant Islamic groups, possibly even al-Qaeda operatives...
But the crackdown hasn't only targeted Falun Gong. A U.S. human rights organization last week publicized seven internal Chinese government documents that direct police not only to stamp out Falun Gong but to suppress unauthorized Roman Catholic and Protestant groups as well. The Vatican recently identified 33 Roman Catholic...