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U.S. Protestants are well aware that they have lagged behind Catholics and Jews in the task of finding suitable places in America for Europe's displaced persons. Last week, Church World Service, an overseas relief agency for 20 Protestant and three Eastern Orthodox denominations, took a decisive step to...
U.S. Presbyterians, the country's third largest Protestant denomination, were making plans to reunite their splintered sects. In Buffalo last week, Northern Presbyterians (the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.), with 2,300,000 members, held their 161st General Assembly, elected a moderator from the South for the first time...
A firm believer in interfaith understanding, Editor Stewart, a member of the United Presbyterian Church, has taught at a Methodist Sunday school, and every year goes on a three-day Roman Catholic retreat. During summers, he preaches what he practices by substituting in the pulpit for vacationing Protestant pastors. But...
...Protestantism has never yet spoken with a single journalistic voice, but for years many church leaders have dreamed of a newspaper for all Protestants. Last week 150 Protestant churchmen met in Kansas City to do something about it. During three days of deliberation, they announced plans to buy the small, interdenominational Protestant Voice (circ. 29,500), and turn it into a weekly newspaper. The new paper will have a 30-man board of directors, selected from 300 representatives of denominations, religious agencies and geographical areas. It will cost an estimated $2,000,000, though publication will start after...
Ten years ago last week, the biggest merger in Protestant history created the biggest Protestant body in the U.S.-the Methodist Church. To celebrate the decennial, the Methodists published some statistics to warm every Wesleyan heart.