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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followed. Last week, when Pastor Bowman, 67, announced his resignation after 24 years, he announced also that next month integration at his church (by now 10% Negro) will be complete: it will be the first Presbyterian church in the U.S. to be served jointly by one white pastor, the Rev. Charles T. Leber Jr., and one Negro, the Rev. Ulysses B. Blakely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Integration in Chicago | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...REV.) GEORGE WERNER The Saugerties Methodist Church Saugerties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 16, 1957 | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Practical Plans. In sectional reports, the delegates explored grounds for unity, sometimes finding hope in unexpected places. Mobile American families switch church affiliations just about as frequently as they move (20% per year), reported Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, associate general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ. Concluded he: "This constant shifting around tends to de-emphasize denominational differences and smooth the path toward Christian unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Quest for Unity | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...free to teach and preach in Russia, monks are in training in the Catholic Eastern Rite at Holy Trinity Priory near Pittsburgh, as well as at Fordham and in Rome. The Russian Orthodox Church would have been better able to resist the inroads of Communism, said the Very Rev. Joseph Olsr of Rome's Pontifical Oriental Institute, if it had been able to draw on the Vatican's experience in "fighting against anti-Christian tendencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Meetings of Minds | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...annual executive meeting of the Baptist World Alliance in Hamilton. Ont., the Rev. Theodore Adams of Richmond (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955), president of the alliance, charged that Baptists are being persecuted in many Latin countries-especially Spain and Colombia. But in Russia, reported Moscow's red-bearded Rev. Yakov Zhidkov, Baptists are doing nicely. Each year, he said, the Russian Baptist Church gains 10,000 to 15,000 members. He added blandly: "Under the Russian constitution all religions have equal freedom of worship. The atheists have freedom too, and they have places where they teach atheism." Said the Rev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Meetings of Minds | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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