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Hardest hit of all were the French Protestant missions. More than half of their missionaries were mobilized at the outbreak of the war, leaving many stations dependent solely on women workers. To the support of these missions in Madagascar, Basutoland, Barotseland, the Cameroons and Gabon, and certain Pacific islands, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Orphaned Missions | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

This Bishop Abe is slated to head the Genuine Japan Christian Church into which all Protestant sects in Japan are being merged. Having imposed native heads on the Protestant missions and pledged them to renounce foreign financial support, the Japanese Government moved on the Orthodox and Roman Catholic communions. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Persecution in Japan | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

French politics were almost as devious and puzzling in 1640 as in 1940. But if the term Labor is substituted for Huguenots, the term Big Business for the big Catholic nobles, U. S. readers will have little trouble understanding the age immediately following the death of Henri IV. Then, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conquering Cardinal | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

The situation that faced Richelieu as France's leading statesman might well have made him sicker. It looks contemporary to readers in 1940. "The inner structure of the country was still far from stable. The idea of national unity . . . was at times the concern of the burghers merely and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conquering Cardinal | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Fifty years ago few divorced persons were so brazen as to appear in any church. But like the horseless carriage, divorce has since become such a commonplace (16 out of every 100 U. S. marriages) that U. S. churches have changed their tune. Few officially allow their ministers to remarry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalians and Divorce | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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