Missionary council cites surge in Protestants worldwide
The International Missionary Council reports Protestant adherents in mission areas rose from 6.5 million in 1925 to 25.9 million in 1948, a 250 percent gain across 120 countries and regions outside English speaking areas Europe. Gains appear strongest in South Africa, India Pakistan, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Manchuria, Korea, and China with notable church resilience amid war and upheaval.
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International Missionary Council
Europe
South Africa
India- Pakistan
Latin America
Brazil
Argentina
Mexico
Far East
Manchuria
Korea
China
Christian Century
Palestine
Indonesia
Bunche Declines State Post Over Washington Race Bias
The Washington Post editors decry racial discrimination delaying Dr. Ralph Bunche’s acceptance of a State Department post. They cite a hotel policy denying him entry and recall Dororthy Maynor’s hall boycott, urging national protest while praising Bunche’s UN leadership and Fisk University remarks on democratic realism.
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Ralph Bunche
United States
Washington Post
Middle East
U.N
Truman
Bunche
United Nations
Lake Success
State Department
Washington
Rhodes
Middle East Institute
Washington Ways
D.A.R
Dorothy Maynor
Fisk University
Georgia
America
G. K. Chesterton
Hitler
Freedom and Friendship sermon on church and state in Pasadena
The closing paragraphs of a 1943 sermon by Theodore Gerald Soares urge standing for freedom. They defend liberty of speech and worship, oppose censorship, and call for United States government noninterference with religious outreach abroad. The message emphasizes unity among Christians, tolerance of multiple truths, and the need to preach the gospel worldwide without political restraint.
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Pasadena
Theodore Gerald Soares
Spanish America
Italy
United States
State Department
Father
Dibelius Denounces Communist Activities
Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin denounces Communist activities in the Soviet zone and accuses Moscow backed forces of reviving Gestapo tactics. He warns against state overreach into education and calls for Germans to resist totalitarian pressure, amid Berlin Radio demand for his ouster and ongoing Communist criticism.
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Otto Dibelius
Berlin
Evangelical Church In Germany
EKID
Germany
Dibelius
Reich
People's Police
Hamburg
Othelius
Dr. Dibellus
Dibellus
BRNS
Churchmen defend leaders against defamation in Boston statement
Thirty five Protestant churchmen in Boston signed a statement defending distinguished leaders defamed as subversive citizens or dupes of the Communists. Named among the attacked figures are Albert Einstein Thomas Mann Kirt Jey F Mather Harvard professor Harlow Shapley and others known for opposing authoritarianism. Signers include Rev Emory E Burke Dr Albert Buckner Coe Rev Isaac Higginbotham and Dr Walter G Muelder.
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Boston
Albert Einstein
Thomas Mann
Kirt Jey F. Mather
Harvard University
Harlow Shapley
Harvard University Observatory
Methodist World Service Receipts Reach 7.67 Million
The Methodist Church reports its 1948 1952 quadrennium first annual financials show world service totaling 7 672 360 with a 29.26 percent rise over the previous quadrennium. Separate post for Advance for Christ and His Church 1 052 415 and overseas relief Week of Dedication 788 072. Total general benevolences 9 813 351. May world service receipts 1 909 884 up 399 627 from 1948.
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Methodist
World Service
Thomas B. Lugg
General Commission On World Service
Christ and His Church
Father Lombardi in Paris Preaching Tour
Crowds of Roman Catholics gathered at Orly airfield in Paris to welcome Father Riccardo Lombardi, famed Italian Jesuit whose Crusade of Love has earned him renown. The 40 year old preacher often enters prayer for hours, during which he is said to lose consciousness. Over 150,000 have assembled to hear him. sermons at airfields reflect limited facilities. The Neapolitan Jesuit, hailed as a new St. Francis, has toured Italy and Vienna, spreading Gospel love and calling listeners to repentance.
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Orly
Paris
Father Riccardo Lombardi
Father Lombardi
St. Francis of Assisi
Italy
Vienna
Divorce Wave Seen on Decline
America's post war divorce wave has passed its crest says Dr. Leland F. Wood secretary of the commission on marriage and the home of the Federal Council of Churches He notes the rate now stands at one divorce in four and a half marriages versus the 1845 rate of one in three He cites college courses on marriage and family life and church programs aiding married life and adds divorces are almost vanishing among couples who seek pre marriage guidance from clergy and doctors
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America
Leland F. Wood
Commission On Marriage
Federal Council of Churches
MacArthur Seeks Bible Drive for postwar Japan
General Douglas MacArthur requests a permanent Bible distribution program in Japan to reach every village and hamlet. He lauds the American Bible Society for its contribution to Christianity in Japan. United Bible Societies in 21 countries distributed 17,508,464 portions and Bibles in 1948, up from 14,108,436 the prior year.
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Japan
Douglas’ MacArthur
American Bible Society
United Bible Societies
Japan Christian University Drive Fund Raising Update
Dr Ralph E Diffendorfer president of the Japan Christian University Foundation announces progress toward establishing two Christian universities in Japan. He says about 1 778 000 dollars has been raised and notes 1 300 000 dollars for the U S university and 132 000 000 yen about 3748 000 dollars contributed in Japan during his seven weeks visit and reports.
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Tokyo
Christian University
Japan
Ralph E. Diffendorfer
Japan Christian University Foundation, Inc
Diffendorfer
Methodist Church
United States
National Christian Council
Difendorfer
Drop Action Against Religious Objectors
The Justice Department instructed district attorneys to register conscientious objectors who refuse draft registration, avoiding prosecutions in most cases. The Civil Liberties Union disclosed the directive issued May 26 by Peyton Ford to Tom C. Clark and urged action to prevent criminal charges for sincere objectors.
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U.S. Department of Justice
Ttat
Civil Librerties Union
Justice Department
U.S
Peyton Ford
Atty
Tom C. Clark
Church Withdraws Support of Local Conference
Members of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles vote to cut most financial support to the local Congregational Conference in protest of its merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Pastor Dr James W Fifield Jr says future gifts cover only the per capita voting tax. They also fund anti merger efforts via the National Committee for the Continuation of the Congregational Christian Churches.
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First Congregational Church
Los Angeles
Congregational Conference
Evangelical and Reformed Church
James W. Fifield, Jr
National Committee For the Continuation of the
Congregational Christian Churches
Lutheran Relief Appeal Reaches Over One Million Mark
The 1549 Lutheran World Action relief drive has collected 1,128,148 dollars, surpassing 28 percent of its 4,000,000 goal. Eight National Lutheran Council bodies contributed in five months, led by United Lutheran Church with 425,477 dollars, American Lutheran Church 225,001, Evangelical Lutheran Church 205,521, and Augustana Lutheran Church 171,348.
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Lutheran Relief Appeal
Lutheran World Action Appeal
National Lutheran Council
United Lutheran Church
American Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Augustana Lutheran Church
Dry Forces Lose in State Legislaturas
A survey shows dry forces failed to advance statewide repeal efforts in most states while blocking wet sponsored bills. Kansas enacted liquor control measures, creating a new authority. Mississippi and Oklahoma remain statewide prohibition states.
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Antiquor
Kansas
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Maine
North Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Indiana
Iowa
Missouri
Montana
South Carolina
South Dakota
Ohio
New Mexico
Connecticut
Minnesota
New Jersey
New York
Free Individuals Joined in a Team
In Eisenhower's Columbia University address he champions the free individual within society. He argues freedom thrives when joined in a brotherhood, as part of a mighty partnership, uniting in a larger spiritual view beyond mere materialism.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
America
Brotherhood of Man
Eisenhower
Longfellow
God
Students Leave for Foreign Work Camps
A group of 125 Americans mostly students will work this summer in 14 World Council of Churches camps in Europe and Japan with about 600 additional students from Western Europe and Japan. The participants represent 14 Protestant denominations, including two Negroes. They will rebuild churches, construct camps and recreation centers, dig sanitation trenches, and convert munition sheds into refugee housing. Participants pay their own expenses and contribute 14 dollars daily. some churches or agencies cover all or part of the costs.
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World Council of Churches
Joseph Howell
Council
Europe
Japan
Focal Church
John T McCutcheon dies at 73 after long illness
John J McCutcheon noted cartoonist died June 10 following a prolonged illness at age 73. Pulitzer Prize winner in 1931 for A Wise Economist Asks a Question, his work gained fame for sharp political cartoons and Hoosier wit.
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John T. McCutcheon
Chicago Tribune
Iakewell
Encyclopedia Britannica
Record High Released-Time Enrollment in New York
The Greater New York Coordinating Committee reports 38.4 percent of third through eighth graders are enrolled in released time religious education. This is the highest rate since February 1941, with 295,089 students in grades three to eight in public schools as of March 1948. The committee groups Protestants Catholics and Jews.
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Greater New York
United Nations Shapes Future Peace Efforts
As the General Assembly closes its third session the UN faces dark times behind and brighter hopes ahead. Though east west conflict hinders universal cooperation, the UN and its agencies push strides toward a better world by addressing economic social and political injustices and preventing another global war. The charter guides reducing inequities while maintaining leverage to ease differences peacefully.
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General Assembly
U.N
Paris
United Nations
Economic and Social Council
Trusteeship Council
Security Council
Mirror of Opinion Soviet Purge of Science
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists warns that modern totalitarian states override science with dogma and control over thought. It argues Lysenko’s claim discounts science’s role and cautions that Europe’s drift to pre scientific dogma endangers civilization.
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Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Lysenko
Silent Prayer for United Nations
Trygve Lie urges the United Nations General Assembly to open with a period of silent prayer and meditation. He cites letters and interviews urging prayer while noting no spoken form suits all faiths. A silent interval could unite diverse beliefs and foster inner peace and national concord.
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Trygve Lie
United Nations
General Assembly of the
World Organization
General Assembly
God
Wisconsin Congregational Churches Split Over Merger Denial
A General Council spokesman denied that 64 Wisconsin Congregational churches opposed the merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Rev Paul Gia Russo said Pilgrim Congregational Church Milwaukee voted 308 to 22 against. He estimated about 64 other Wisconsin churches joined similar action, while only four churches besides Russo indicated they may not join the United Church.
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General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches
Wisconsin
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Paul Gia Russo
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Milwaukee
General Council
Gio Russo
United Church
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