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Last week, reviewing the year, battle-worn old (73) Bishop Otto Dibelius told his 120-man Evangelical Church Synod, which represents East and West German Protestantism, that the sweetness had turned sour and the light was all but gone. Pressure on Christian students has begun again, surveillance of pastors and their services has been increased, and church collections have been prohibited...
...Pursuit of Fire Water Sir: Your Nov. 2 report that the Arizona Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. recommended . . . that the ban on the sale of liquor to Indians be lifted is in error. Synod did not make this recommendation. Rather, in the interest of civil rights, Synod voted to request Governor Howard Pyle to put the matter and final decision in the hands of Indian tribal councils ... It isn't that Presbyterians are in favor of liquor. The point is that they are against discrimination, and they feel that white man's laws banning...
DOUGLAS S. VANCE State Executive Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Arizona
...Bristol Jr., a 3O-year-old Manhattan businessman, is a good example of a layman who works hard for Christianity without stumbling into either pitfall. He is a devout Episcopalian. As a licensed lay reader, a synod delegate and field worker for his church's New York diocese, he tries his best to gain more followers for what he calls "the sleeping giant" of U.S. religious bodies. As vice president of the Laymen's Movement for a Christian World, he tries to make Christian principles felt in various segments of public life, e.g., by helping...
...Arizona Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) faced up to a ticklish question after Governor J. Howard Pyle requested Presbyterian views: Should Arizona remove the state ban on the sale of liquor to Indians, as a step in establishing full civil rights for them? "I don't see how any Christian can say anything to the liquor traffic but 'No!' " cried the Rev. E. P. Smith, missionary from the Navaho reservation. But after short, sharp debate (and a score of abstentions), the synod recommended lifting the ban. Vote...