Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Religion and Grants...
...Caodaism, a faith (founded by him in 1926) which combines belief in everything from Confucianism to Christianity. Ho Phap, who claims 2,000,000 disciples, has a private army of 20,000 which provides Bao Dai's personal guard and bitterly fights the Communists as enemies of religion...
Slogan for the movement, headed by Dr. Elmer G. Homrighausen of Princeton Theological Seminary, is "America for Christ." Combined with the Roman Catholic Holy Year, it may make 1950 the most religion-conscious twelvemonth the modern world has yet known...
...News. Except at Easter and Christmas, most newspapers have generally kept religion stories on the "church news" page, a dull collection of building-fund reports, warmed-over sermons and church-supper notes surrounded by profitable church ads. These pages sound the same week after week, bore editors as much as they do most readers. But last Easter, editors who ran Oursler's Greatest Story got a surprise; readers were so interested that circulation jumped 5,000 to 10,000 on several papers. The Chicago Daily News started the Greatest Story on Page One, kept it there under news headlines...
...Business School does not accept women, but runs a Management Training Program for them at Radcliffe. The Divinity School allows women to study the history and philosophy of religion there. Under joint instruction, Radcliffe girls have taken College classes since...