Word: protestantizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Ulster's Protestant extremists called a 24-hour general strike under the auspices of a newly formed organization called the United Loyalist Council. "There is going to be no more pussyfooting," cried the council's chairman, William ("King Billy") Craig, who has a way of turning...
Burying the Dead. In fact, it turned out to be the occasion for some of the most blatant attacks against the Catholic community in the four-year history of the troubles. Protestant gunmen fired indiscriminately on a funeral procession of several hundred Catholics who were following the coffins of three...
Elsewhere in Belfast that same afternoon, a convent and a Catholic school for handicapped children were attacked by mobs hurling stones, bricks and bottles. A Catholic church and parish house were broken into and ransacked, their religious statues smashed. Three Catholic families in Protestant areas were fire-bombed from their...
While the strength of the I.R.A. has declined, the Protestant organizations have grown larger and bolder. Since December, the "sectarian" killings that had long seemed to be an expression of random aggression have taken on a more perceptible pattern. Often in the past two months they have involved groups of...
A number of groups involved in Key 73 have decided to avoid the issue altogether. The Richmond, Va., clergy association, for instance, expressly ruled out proselytism of Jews, directing its efforts only to "inactive and unchurched people in the Christian community." Such moves would have been hailed by the late...