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Word: tranquebar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will of God. The fact that Christians in India are a tiny religious minority has always tended to blur denominational differences. Even so, the road to union has been an uphill climb. In 1919, at the village of Tranquebar, south of Madras, where India's first Protestant missionaries had landed, 50 ministers of evangelical churches met to discuss union. Some of them-Anglicans and members of the South India United Church*-signed a manifesto proposing union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Example in Unity | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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