Word: protestantize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fall President Jean S. Milner of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions sent Pastor Evans an unprecedented job offer. "We need you, Lou," he wrote, "to perform a unique ministry to this nation which is not now being fulfilled by any Protestant church . . . We need your ministry in a...
Festive Coconuts. The Portuguese, during their rule in India, tried to stamp out native Christian practices and enforce strict conformity to Latin rituals. In reaction, many Indian Christians broke away from Rome. Called "Jacobites," after Jacob al-Baradai, a 6th century Syrian bishop, they now number 800,000. Another group...
The G.I.s in Korea had two well-known clerical visitors from the U.S. with them for Christmas. From Manhattan came Francis Cardinal Spellman, who besides being Archbishop of New York is Vicar of the Military Ordinariate, responsible for the spiritual care of all Roman Catholics in the U.S. armed forces...
The National Council of Churches reported a new high in church giving. During the past fiscal year, members of 47 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox denominations contributed $1,286,633,160, or about 10% more than the year before. The average member gave his church $34.32. Most generous givers: the Free...