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Churches, 1950

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Miss Padgett Farewelled by Methodist Friends

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 8

At the close of the service at the Wodonga Methodist Church on Sunday evening the congregation adjourned to the school hall to…

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Pope Rules Catholic Judges Cannot Give Divorces to Protestant Non-Conformists Vatican City

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 1

BAPTISM conferred by Protestant non-Conformist sects is valid in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy Office central Catholic authority on heresy and dogma has ruled. Reuter says the ruling means…

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Coombargana Baptist Church Harvest Thanksgiving

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 7

Arrangements have been made to hold the annual harvest thanksgiving at the Goombargana Baptist Church on Saturday,…

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Church of England (Notes by the Rector)

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 1

Sunday School classes will begin at St. John's Parish Hall and kindergarten room on the first Sunday in March at 10.30 a.m. The Rector…

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Some Guests Behave Badly at Weddings. —Albury Parish Paper

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 1

“MANY weddings are solemnised at St. Matthew’s, Albury, and most of them are dignified and beautiful,” declares the “Parish Paper.” “Some guests however,…

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Peace Mission

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Mon.: A Dutch Cabinet official is on his way to Indonesia with proposals for peace between Captain “Turco”…

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First Mission Station

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 2

A blacks’ mission station, started by one Green by name, situated in Gippsland, was the first to retrieve natives from the Serpentine…

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Methodist Women Meet

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 6

At the first meeting of the Albury Methodist Church Aid for 1950, Rev. Stocks attended the opening and gave a short talk…

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Lutheran Church for Benalla

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

A body of New Australians representing over 30 families at Benalla Immigration Accommodation Centre, agreed to form a Lutheran…

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Methodist Church

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 1

"The Upper Room"--the world's most widely used devotional guide--is now available to Australia. The Commonwealth Crusade for Christ…

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Catholic Church May Change Policy

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 4

ROME, Thurs.: An important chance is the Vatican policy towards the closer collaboration of the Roman Catholic Church…

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Churchill Not Interested in Leadership

Border Morning Mail · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 12

LONDON, Thurs.: Addressing a night meeting in Somerset, Mr. Churchill told electors that [?] was “entirely disinterested”…

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Methodist Aid Farewells Member

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 February 1950 · page 7

At the invitation of their president, Mrs. Stocks, members of Albury Methodist Ladies’ Church Aid at the parsonage on…

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Church Can Fail God

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: If the Christian Church allowed such horrors as the hydrogen bomb to become an accepted method of warfare…

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“Petrol Costing Churchill Votes”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Mon.: Labor leaders say that Winston Churchill's hint of more petrol has become a boomerang which is winning votes…

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Church Leaders Concerned For Migrant Families MENANGLE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 5

CHURCH leaders meeting at Menangle, expressed concern today at the separation of migrant families in Australia. Migrant families were being…

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Catholic Judge on Rossellini and Bergman

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 1

VATICAN CITY, Wed.: The case Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman was “that of two persons. living publicly in adultery.”…

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Outlaw War; Turn to Life—Council of Churches SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 3

“PEACE will not be coerced through the hydrogen bomb, nor any other weapon,” the Australian Council for the World Council of Churches said in a final statement today after the conclusion of its annual conference…

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Churchill Would Approach Stalin if Elected P.M. LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 5

IN a major policy speech at Edinburgh last night, the Conservative leader (Mr. Winston Churchill) demanded a supreme effort bridge the gulf between the East and the…

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Catholic Women to Meet at Bright

Border Morning Mail · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 2

The annual conference of the Sandhurst Diocesan delegates and members of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild will take…

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