Word: protestantitis
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...Jesuits rode full gallop into their new assignments: convert the heathen, reconvert Protestant Europe. Francis Xavier hopscotched from India to Southeast Asia to Japan, a country that had never before heard the Christian message. More than any others, the Society of Jesus stemmed, and sometimes reversed, the tide of Protestantism in France, the Low Countries and Central Europe. When Ignatius died in 1556, his order was nearly 1,000 strong and had dispatched its apostles to four continents...
The Church Project on U.S. Investments in Southern Africa, a coalition of Protestant denominations is sponsoring resolutions that would force a number of American companies to send their stockholders information on their South African operations.
The most active members of the national campaign for corporate "social responsibility" have been the Project for Corporate Responsibility (PCR) and various coalitions of concerned Protestant denominations. And two years ago, in an effort to assist church groups with research on their respective investments, the National Council of Churches established...
His new wife also took charge of the chaotic household finances and began checking on the baron's various bills, some of which he had accepted without verifying. She suspected that neighboring tradesmen had been cheating the unwary baron. Her accusations met with indignation among the townspeople, who had...
Reflecting some of the same communal spirit as Pentecostalism is the widespread "small-group movement," which concentrates on Bible and prayer meetings in both Catholic and Protestant homes. These small groups, and other new religious patterns, were discussed at an ecumenical conference on the future of U.S. religion held in...