31.   Next month, meanwhile, the annual marching season peaks, as Protestant groups demand to march through Catholic neighborhoods where they are not wanted.

32.   No Protestant group will actually recommend condoms, though some, like the Baptists, do not ban it.

33.   Officials also said they feared that the attacks could provoke retaliation by the larger Protestant paramilitary groups here and in the overwhelmingly Catholic Irish Republic to the south.

34.   Other more militant Protestant groups assailed the announcement, saying it was simply a tactical move to get Sinn Fein into the multi-party talks.

35.   Presbyterians, like other mainline Protestant groups, are divided over the question of ordaining gays and lesbians.

36.   Protestant militant groups agreed to join the cease-fire in October, and extremist Loyalist groups held their own separate meeting with British officials last week.

37.   Protestant paramilitary groups have only recently begun to honor the cease-fire.

38.   Protestant groups have been pressing for the expulsion of Sinn Fein since the killings, insisting that the IRA was behind the attacks.

39.   Religious conflicts like these have become more common in Mexico, where evangelical and other Protestant groups have made major inroads among the Catholic majority.

40.   Some Orangemen have denounced leading Protestant clergy for a call to end the violence accompanying a protest by the Orange Order, a Protestant fraternal group.