Word: protestantism
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The story's protagonist, Maria McShane, lost an eye in a bombing in Northern Ireland in 1976. She was pregnant at the time. Eighteen years later, the son she was carrying back then was shot by a Protestant gunman. Her son's murder shattered the family, but Maria says, "We...
Today, the Communist Party's restrictions on religion help sects flourish. China's 18 state-sanctioned Protestant seminaries can't graduate enough ministers, and in the countryside, believers commonly outnumber ordained preachers 50,000 to one?not enough shepherds for an expanding flock. The unavailability of rural health-care means...
The move acted as a much-needed stimulant to a stagnating settlement. Hours after De Chastelain?s report, the British government started dismantling military outposts and declared an amnesty for some I.R.A. fighters. The mainly Protestant unionists, who had been gradually paralyzing the two-year-old power-sharing government in...
Even as the I.R.A. was making history, its enemies were repeating it. Hours after De Chastelain?s report was released, Protestant paramilitaries continued their attacks on Catholic homes. The weapons of choice, pipe bombs built from parts in any hardware shop, are too easy to make for them ever to...
If the British government, the IRA and the protestant extremists can keep compromising and destroying their guns, peace and prosperity will replace anger and pessimism in the north. This can only be done if David Trimble is reelected first minister of the Northern Ireland assembly.