Word: protestantism
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The 'Real IRA' is believed to have carried out the attack. The group is one of a number of so-called dissident republicans - hardliners who oppose the power-sharing government between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic political parties. The 'Real IRA' was also responsible for the Omagh bomb which...
But for one member of the Protestant-backed Democratic Unionist Party, Sinn Fein's response to last night's murders is simply "weasel words." "Last week Sinn Fein made it as difficult as possible for the security forces to act," says William McCrea, who represents the South Antrim constituency where...
Brazilian devotion to the Catholic Church has declined over the past several years. Whereas Brazil was once an almost entirely Catholic nation, only 74% of Brazilians today admit allegiance to Rome, with large numbers, especially the urban poor, having defected to Protestant Evangelical sects. Many more water down their Catholicism...
Harvard has changed. When it began, it consisted of nine men preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the Protestant ministry. Now, it consists of 6,700 undergraduate men and women preparing for lives of contemplation and self-denial in the current economy. With the demise of the...
As an undergraduate, Roosevelt was exposed to an environment that was predominantly white, male, and Protestant. The record of his courses reveal that he may have had presidential aspirations even as an undergraduate—enrolling in classes that included Constitutional Government, Public Address, and Administration of the Government of...