21.   Graffiti against the surrendering of weapons by the Irish Republican Army, top, and a mural supportive of the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a Protestant group, below.

22.   He is a Protestant in an overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country and belongs to the Evangelical Augsburg Church, the largest Protestant group in Poland.

23.   He did not get into the specifics of when or how the IRA, or Protestant paramilitary groups, should disarm.

24.   He said that the British security forces and Protestant paramilitary groups were heavily armed and that disarmament could not be a condition for negotiations.

25.   Illegal Protestant groups are believed to be surging in China despite the campaign to stamp them out.

26.   In Dublin, Foreign Minister Dick Spring said that the British decision was proof that the cease-fires by the IRA and Protestant paramilitary groups were working.

27.   In the Lower Shankill housing project, vast murals depict Protestant paramilitary groups as masked freedom fighters toting automatic weapons.

28.   Keith said six other U.S. citizens, all from Protestant missionary groups who are working with indigenous groups, are being held hostage in Colombia.

29.   Meanwhile, a major Protestant group has taken a pro-Israel stand.

30.   Neither the IRA nor Protestant paramilitary groups have acknowledged responsibility for those recent attacks.