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...Protestant and Anglican churches in Africa today claim a total membership of 22 million, not including nearly 7 million members of more than 5,000 independent African sects, some of them only semi-Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN AFRICA: In Search of Its Soul | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...drug laws really abridge the defendants' religious freedom? Yes, found the court. "Peyotism" goes back to at least 1560; it is the central sacrament of a semi-Christian church whose members (estimated at anywhere from 30,000 to 250,000) believe that peyote puts partakers in direct contact with God. As the court put it: "To forbid the use of peyote is to remove the theological heart of Peyotism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: God & Peyote | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

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