Word: synods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey made by the National Council of the Churches of Christ. In 15 years, enrollments in the nation's 3,000 Protestant schools have jumped 61% to 186,000; Catholic enrollments are up 35% to more than 3,000,000. Leading Protestant group: the Missouri Lutheran Synod, with 1,164 schools and 95,474 students. ¶A red-faced Los Angeles school administration reported that it would cost the city $1,389.50 to correct the misspelling (langauge for language) on the school system's new report cards. Cried the L. A. Examiner: "What's Rong With Skool...
...Church of South Africa (official title: Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk) bares its teeth indiscriminately at foxtrotting, modern bathing suits and free speech. Along with its two smaller sister communions, it has denounced Christmas celebrations as "heathen rites" and castigated South Africans, especially women, for smoking and drinking. At its last synod the church elders condemned Freemasonry, the equality of the sexes and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights (as defying the "pattern of inequality" which God created...
...Herrengroup." Only a few clergymen have dared to denounce church policy. Last week in Cape Town, 45-year-old Pastor Daniel Devos, once a highly regarded member of the synod, addressed a rally in support of a new nonpolitical church of his own. Said Pastor Devos: "One thousand political predikants rule behind the scenes, change cabinets at will, control the church." Both church and government leaders consolidate their power through a secret society, the Breeder-bond-Brotherhood. "Their aim," he added, "is a republic which will suppress all resistance and destroy the freedom of all races except a single...
...friend told him that in the Presbyterian Church, a new minister may get a full year's trial. John Urich decided to become a Presbyterian. But when he asked the Lutheran Synod to let him go, they decided to let him try six months at Grace & St. Paul's Church on Manhattan's West 71st Street, if the congregation was willing...
...Pretoria, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church (1,400,000 members) held a synod, solemnly condemned: 1) cremation ("a heathen custom"), 2) commercial radio programs on Sundays, 3) American comics ("doing untold harm"), 4) Freemasonry, 5) the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The churchmen rejected racial and sex equality ("God spoke to Adam, not to Eve"), as well as freedom of speech and opinion: "Heresy and untruth may not be spoken freely . . . The devilish tendencies in man place very definite limits on these freedoms...