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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"It is not a good thing that in Connecticut and Massachusetts women should be subject to grievous suffering because Roman Catholic pressure refuses to allow even doctors to give information on birth control even to non-Catholics.* It was not a good thing for Christians to persecute and even burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New-Time Religion? | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

No one knows exactly when, but it was some 2,000 years ago that a ship from Egypt was wrecked on the west coast of India, south of Bombay. Seven men and seven women survived, and an ancient cemetery at the village of Nowgow is traditionally the place where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saturday's Oilmen | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

New Genesis. Without any written records of their faith, which were presumably lost in the shipwreck, Saturday's Oilmen handed down what they could remember of their rituals and practices from generation to generation, losing more and more as the centuries rolled on. Then, tradition relates that some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saturday's Oilmen | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

But the little community of Indian Israelites knew nothing of their Scriptures until 1819, when U.S. Christian missionaries published a translation of the Book of Genesis into Marathi, the language of the Hindus among whom the Jews lived. And it was only in the 19th century that the British recognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saturday's Oilmen | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Rabbi Wanted. The 21,000 Bene Israelites, most of them in the Bombay area, are the largest single group in India's small (25,400) Jewish community. There are 28 Bene Israel synagogues, whose congregations will hold their first assembly in Bombay this month. After living and intermarrying for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saturday's Oilmen | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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