Word: thomas
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...Doubting Thomas, the disciple who is best known for his verification of Jesus' resurrection by touching the wounds in his hands (John 20: 25-28) was a favorite of Gnostic writers, who attributed to him extensive missionary journeys in Persia and India. The Mar Thoma Church in southern India claims him as its founder...
...voters of Okinawa and the other Ryukyu islands chose a new legislature in the first general election in two years, the Red-run Minren Party campaigned with arrogant confidence, demanding that the U.S. fold up its bases and go home. The conservative Democratic Party and Independent Jugo Thoma, U.S.-appointed chief executive of the Okinawan government, doggedly defended their cooperation with the U.S. administration, pointed to schools built and roads abuilding. The Socialist Masses Party concentrated on throwing sake parties, where the rice wine flowed freely...
When the returns came in. both the U.S. and the Reds got a shock. The big winner: the bibulous Socialists, who captured nine of the legislature's 29 seats. The pro-American Democrats skidded Irom 17 seats to seven, and only one of Thoma's supporters was elected. But the Communist Minren won only five seats, half the number they expected. "A stunning blow," confessed Saichi Nakeshi. Red mayor of Naha. "The people disliked the idea of being used as a tool of international Communism," commented the Socialists' snaggle-toothed Tsumichio Asato...
...Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, in South India (membership 250,000), claims the Apostle Thomas as its founder...
...again defied the Communists; Archbishop Michael 62, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, whose flock numbers some 6,500,000 communicants; Theologian John Baillie, 68, onetime Moderator of the Church of Scotland, a Highlander who is an authority on moral philosophy; Metropolitan Juhanon Mar Thoma of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, India, one of the oldest churches in Christendom. There were other delegates, some hitherto obscure, who made their mark at Evanston. Among the outstanding leaders...