Word: protestantitis
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* Sponsored by the National Council of Christians and Jews. In last month's Brotherhood Week (Feb. 20 to 27), more than 250,000 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish congregations participated.
A Protestant in Spain today is a second-class citizen. So concludes Pulitzer-Prizewinning Reporter Homer Bigart, who last week reported on a month spent in Spain on his way home from a year's tour of duty in the Iron Curtain countries. Writing in the New York Herald...
A Spanish Protestant, he said, "cannot hold official position in the government, nor can he rise to officer's rank in the army unless he conceals his religious beliefs. He is not allowed to practice his faith in public. The chapel he attends must not display any exterior evidence...
...pattern of the Protestants' lot has changed somewhat, according to Reporter Bigart, since the outbreaks of popular violence against them more than a year ago. In a 1947 pastoral letter, writes Bigart, Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Seville, measured Protestantism against "atheistic and Soviet Communism" as being among "other grave dangers which perhaps are more to be feared because they inspire less horror." The van-dalistic raids on Protestant churches that followed simmered down last year, when the Spanish government began to clamp down more tightly than ever on Protestant activities...
"Marriage and baptism by the Protestant clergy have no legal recognition.* This is a particular hardship to our workers, who, since they are not legally considered married, are thus denied wage supplements for their wives and children. Our dead are denied interment in. church cemeteries, and because there are very...