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During the years, different black families were either told by church leadership not to attend church or chose not to attend church after white members complained. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 33 ] [ 25 ] : 68 The church began considering segregated congregations, [ 31 ] [ 34 ] and sent missionaries to southern United States to establish segregated ...
For two years in the 1950s, churches were banned by the pre-democracy KMT regime from using Chinese Bibles written with Latin letters instead of Chinese characters. The ban was lifted with an encouragement to use Chinese characters. A 1973 Taiwanese translation of the New Testament was the product of cooperation between Protestants and ...
No Catholic people in Quebec or other parts of New France were forced to convert to the Anglican Church. The British did open the colony to Protestant Huguenots, who had been banned from settlement by previous French colonial authorities - a continuation of discrimination that existed in France. [citation needed]
These laws mainly affected church schools teaching in German. Some laws, such is in Montana, forbade preaching in German during church. [22] A total ban on teaching German in both public and private schools was imposed for a time in at least fourteen states, including California, Indiana, [23] Wisconsin, [24] Ohio, Iowa and Nebraska. California ...
The Catholic Church takes the position that the Church itself has a proper role in guiding and informing consciences, explaining the natural law, and judging the moral integrity of the state, thereby serving as check to the power of the state. [143] The Church teaches that the right of individuals to religious freedom is an essential dignity.
A quarter of U.S. congregations in the United Methodist Church have received permission to leave the denomination during a five-year window, closing this month, that authorized departures for ...
Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination ...
In November 2009, the city council of Dundee was accused of banning Christmas because it promoted its celebrations as the Winter Night Light festival, initially with no specific references to Christianity. Local church leaders were invited to participate in the event, and they did. [124]