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In the Belfast neighborhood of Ardoyne, a brick wall separates the Protestant and Catholic working-class neighborhoods, concealing the fact that the terraces of narrow houses are the same on each side. There is a small door in the wall, but the children never pass through it. Ciaran, 12, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Death After School | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

In fact, there is nothing but stillness behind the wall. The streets are empty save for two Protestant boys, Robert, 13, and Frankie, 15, sitting on a stoop, doing nothing. Neither one has ever gone within 10 yds. of the wall. Even at 20 yds., the slightest sound from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Death After School | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

They are bored. Protestant neighborhoods are not patrolled by the British army or the RUC; there is little street life and to the residents, the enemy is an invisible force behind a wall. Robert, younger but more spirited, wants out of Belfast. He hopes to immigrate to Australia someday. Frankie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Death After School | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

There are Protestant paramilitary groups, and they have their own youth wings, but there is no occupying force to oppose. Kids in Protestant neighborhoods do not riot or throw stones. Attacks on Catholics have decreased over the years, and the assassinations are carried out by the men. "We've never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Death After School | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...pledging obedience to God. Another key change occurs in a dramatic representation showing a polytheistic Elohim dispatching Jehovah and Michael to create the world. The scene in which Satan pays a Protestant preacher to lure Mormons from their faith is out, perhaps because it offended converts from Protestantism. (The Latter-Day Saints still hold theirs to be the only authentic form of Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Women's Rites | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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