21. But within a year, he was baptized in a Protestant church and has not missed a Sunday service since. 22. Carter also met with Protestant church leaders at a service in a Baptist church named after Martin Luther King Jr. where he was given a Bible. 23. Carberry was also a leading national figure in ecumenism with the Protestant churches. 24. Castle is the first openly gay pastor to lead a mainline Protestant church in the Miami Valley. 25. Charismatic Protestant churches are becoming powerful magnets for Hispanics, many former Roman Catholics, who find the emotional fervor of worship more in tune with their culture. 26. Decentralized denominations like the Southern Baptist Convention and many fundamentalist Protestant churches have no national policy, leaving it to individual congregations. 27. Evangelical pastors have been detained, some Protestant churches have been closed and many Bibles have been confiscated. 28. Early on, Protestant churches tossed the books of the Catholic Bible that contain most of the verses that Catholic scholars point to as evidence of purgatory. 29. Even at Protestant churches that offer the ritual, only a fraction of worshipers have been willing to partake. 30. Following the trial, the fundamentalist-modernist controversy shook Protestant churches. |
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