Clergy Call Sun Day Laws Infringe on Minority Rights
At a Atlantic City seminar two Roman Catholic priests a Jewish social worker and a law professor urged Catholics to recognize minority sabbath observances and oppose Sunday closing laws. They warned that misunderstandings between Jewish and Catholic communities may arise without sensitivity to minority claims and noted parallels to funding for parochial schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Drinan
Southern Baptists Claim No 1 Status
Southern Baptists report 10,193,052 members, the largest Protestant church membership in the United States, for the end of 1962. J P Edmunds, research secretary for the Southern Baptist Convention Sunday School Board, released the figures in Nashville Tennessee.
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Southern Baptists
Nashville
J. P. Edmunds
Southern Baptist Convention
Sunday School Board
Gideon Bibles Placed Aboard Ships From Newport News
Ships built in Newport News leave port with Gideon Bibles in captain quarters and in every stateroom. The program began when States Steamship Lines asked for Bibles in four passenger cargo vessels under construction. Deluxe editions supplied for captains quarters and hotel copies for 12 staterooms per ship. States Lines now advertises Gideon Bible in each stateroom.
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Newport News
Polaris
States Steamship Lines
Gideon
States Lines
R. R. Stall
Newport News Ship Building and Drydock Co
Stall
Gambler-turned-pastor leads Arkansas mission for poor
Paul Kirkindall, once a gambler known across the South and Midwest, now heads Blytheville Mississippi County Union Mission with a $31,000 annual budget. He preaches weekly, visits hospitals and jails, screens for aid, and declined offers to lead a larger city mission.
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Blytheville
Ark
Paul Kirkindall
Mississippi County
Arkansas
Missouri
Kirkindall
600 Baptists to Launch Japan New Life Evangelist Crusade
About 600 American Baptists will begin a major evangelistic crusade in Japan and parts of free Asia from March 24 to May 6. The Japan New Life movement is funded by Texas Baptists with 1.5 million for expenses and more than 1 million from individuals. Billy Graham will appear in five Japanese cities during the closing phase. The effort, rooted in Baptist history and led by Douglas Jackson, emphasizes lay participation and self-funded teams, with extensive media coverage planned including radio TV and newspapers.
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Austin, Tex
UPI
Japan
Free Asia
Korea
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Philippines
Billy Graham
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas Jackson
Ralph Smith
Austin
Hydge Park
Religious youth convocation fills Barre event
Bennington County Methodist youth attend the fourth annual Methodist Youth Convocation in Barre with 800 youths and leaders hearing Rev. Glenn Evans of Henderson Settlement. Evans will speak at Bennington First Methodist Church services and youth view To Kill a Mocking Bird before a drama by Montpelier Theater Guild.
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Bennington County
Barre
Glenn Evans
Henderson
Frakes
Evans
Melvin R. McGaughey
First Methodist Church
Bennington
Myfers
Sign of
Jonah
Montpelier Theater Guild
Catholics Decide If Gospel Spreads To Other Worlds
Rome reports the Ecumenical Council may debate church outreach if humans conquer space. Bishops and Catholic scholars weigh whether missionary work should extend to inhabited planets, a topic raised as the council convenes under Pope John XXIII to modernize the church.
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Ecumenical Council
Rome
Bennington Area Churches and Theological Debate Summary
A long list of worship services from Bennington churches details schedules at St Francis de Sales St. Main, Congregational, and others. The piece also covers Catholic Mass times and a church debate on evangelizing life on other planets with theologians weighing Providence and redemption versus planetary differences.
Bennington County Church Services and Schedules
A compilation of church worship times and activities across towns including SANDGATE SU NDERLAND MANCHESTER WILMINGTON HOOSICK FALLS POWNAL ARLINGTON NORTH POWNAL WOODFORD HOLLOW SHAFTSBURY. It lists churches such as Union Church First Methodist Church Lady of Fatima Chapel All Saints Episcopal and Immaculate Conception with service hours Sunday School youth groups and mass times for various parishes.
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Manchester First Methodist Church
Edgar W. Johnson
Union Chapel
First Baptist Chal of
Pownal
John C. Hatch
North Pownal
Our Lady of Lourdes
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Springfield
Ralph Williams
West Rutland
Bennington Ymca
Buckler
National Council of Catholic Men
Council
Robert F. Dunnam
Brighton
Mass
Boston College School of Law
Harry A. Haines
Christ
Texas
By Kyle Thompson
Jewish Womens
New York
National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
Woman's Arm
Reform Judaism
OLD First Church
Board of Christian Education and
Church School
Ladies Aid
Missionary Alliance Youth Fellowship
Missionary Alliance Church
First Baptist Church
Abbie G. Sanderson
South Berwick
Maine
United Council of Church Women
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Robert P. Bell
Richard Davis
Katharine Duffield
Glastonbury
Woodford City
South Stream
John Harwood
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
John XXIII
Bennington Church Services
Crescent Boulevard
Cornelius W. Clarke
Alliance Youth Fellowship
Vermont
Soldiers’ Home
Earle W. Forman
Sacred Heart Church
Joseph Wiseman
St. Francis de Sales
Main St
Mser
Francis B. Flanagan
Unitarian Fellowship
Bennington Church of Christ
South St
C. W. Kieffer
Hillside Street
S. C. Greene
Asher
Pilgrim Fellowship
The
R. P. Bell
First Church of Christ Scientist
M. R. McGaughey
Ellen J
First Church of God
Bennington Road
Hicks Avenue
W. Earle Forman
H. Glenn Payne
Religious Society of Friends
Quakers
St. Peter's Episcopal
Pleasant St
Frederick B. Welf
Donald B. Webster
Assoc
Seventh Day Adventist Church
OE Bor Cess Road
Seeley
North Bennington Old Stone Church
Independent Baptist
Elwin Ellis
Mason
Pioneer Girls
Alfred Scott
Congregational Church
Charles J. Parsley
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church
St. John the Baptist
Walter F. Miller
Pius XII
Msgr
Roberto Mari
Domenico Grasso
Masi
Church
Tenn
Edwin A. Briggs
Impala
Radio & Heater
Liggett Bosworth
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vt
Grand Union
Triple “S
Grand “Union
Pownal Center
Isabelle King
Sandgate
Methodist Church
Charles W. Grande
Sunderland Union
James Bagley
East
Wilmington
First
E.H. Nickerson
Fast Arlington Federated Church
Hoosick
All Saints Episcopal
St. Paul's
Donald C. Kelly
West Arlington
Taylor B. Light
Godfrey Parker
Hoosick Falls, NY
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Joel B. Miller
R. L. Clayton
Immaculate Conception
First Assembly of God Church
W.C. Nelson
Arlington
Woodford Hollow
St. Columban’'s
Gerald T. Buckley
Dorset
United Church
Christian Advent Faith Bible Church
Ruth E. Smith
Albert Center
C.G. Belcher
Robert G. Dana
Shaftsbury
A.J. MacDonald
Alvan Lawrence
Bellows Falls
Chester
Brattleboro
Rutland
Main
Odoh
Hanson
Walbridge
Hanson - Walbridge
National
Evi
Nwita
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