Word: protestantitis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
* Greek and Yugoslav Orthodox Easter fell one week later than Roman Catholic and Protestant Easter this year.
Fifteen years ago Christianity in China was in flight. Missionaries, their wives, children and chattels, were pouring out of the interior of China in terrified streams, seeking safety in Shanghai. In Chungking they took refuge with foreign businessmen in a frightened huddle on the South Bank. In Chengtu they gathered...
For a century, the U.S. has supplied two-thirds of the Protestant missionaries, and it now provides over half the overseas financial support for Catholic and Protestant missions alike. These Americans have been the spearhead of Chinese social change. They were the first to penetrate the interior, taking Western ideas...
> Practically all Protestant church services have been forbidden and nearly every Protestant school in the country has been closed, including the interdenominational seminary in Madrid and El Porvenir ("The Future"), the Protestant college.
> Some 30 Protestant pastors had to flee into exile at the end of the Civil War and would probably face a firing squad if they returned. Catholic prelates in Spain have backed Franco's policy of executing his political opponents.