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1995 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, General-Secretary Council of Churches, dies at 64
1994 Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64 1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches 1985 Eugene Carson Blake, Secretary-General World Council of Churches, dies at 78 1983 Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in New York City 1972 Philip Potter appointed Secretary-General of World council of Churches 1965 Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054 1963 All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda 1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches 1951 Frank Chikane, Secretary-General of South Africa Council of Churches 1948 World Council of Churches forms under W Fisherman It Hooft 1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries 1943 Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews 1942 RC churches protest, Dutch bishops stand against spread of Judaism 1940 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants 1936 Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism 1930 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches 1930 David Staple, joint President, Council of Churches for British and Ireland 1921 Philip A. Potter, Dominica Secretary-General World council of Churches 1920 Iron monument unveiled at Stone churches, Flanders 1914 World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through Churches forms 1906 Eugene Carson Blake, U.S. Secretary-General of World council of Churches, 1966-72 1903 John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, official war painter 1825 Amos Bull, composer, wrote book of hymns 'The Responsary', used in New England churches, dies at 81 1744 Amos Bull, composer, wrote book of hymns 'The Responsary', used in New England churches 842 Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches |
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