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Churches, 1950

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Dollar Mission For Big British Liner

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 1 January 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.— The 23,000-ton P. and O. liner Stratheden will be taken off the England-Australia run in May…

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1950 Decisive for Church Fears In East Europe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 1 (A.A.P.). —High-ranking Church leaders in Europe see the Holy year of 1950 as a year of…

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Woman, 71, Dies at Church Service

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Sun. -- A 71-years-old woman collapsed and died while attending a New Year's Day Church service at Newcastle today. She was Mrs. Levina Edwards, of Richard Street,…

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Christian Science Churches

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 7

God was the subject in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text was: Who is…

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Church Collapses in Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1950 · page 5

PERTH, Tues.--A church and a store collapsed when a gale swept through Derby last night…

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Catholic Blind Entertained

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 1

HIS Lordship Bishop O'Brien visited the Christmas party given at Legion House by the…

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An Anglican convert tells his story My Catholic Reading as an Anglican, by Eric van Rooyen. (Obtainable from The Annals Office, Kensington, N.S.W. Price 6d.)

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 4

MR. Eric van Rooyen, while studying for the Church of England ministry, decided to become a Catholic. He was…

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Catholic Youth Has "Double Vocation"

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 1

LISBON.—A new headquarters for the Portuguese Young Christian Workers has been opened here, the gift of the Lisbon patriarchate…

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Catholic Youth Meet in Carnival Three States Clash At Annual Sports

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 1

AFTER a week of varied sporting contests and social functions the 1949-50 Interstate Carnival concluded last Tuesday evening. Representative teams from the Victorian and South…

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Hungarian Reds Say Church Is Unbroken

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 2

"WASHINGTON.—The Hungarian Communist regime has confessed that despite its imprisonment of His Eminence Cardinal Mindszenty the spirit of the Catholic Church there remained unbroken…

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Xavier Relic Venerated At Dublin Church

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 5

DUBLIN.—An estimated 100,000 people venerated the relic of St. Francis Xavier during a Triduum held here…

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Danebank Church of England School

The Propeller · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 3

The sixteenth annual speech day in connection with Danebank Church of England School, Hurstville,…

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Textile Mission to Tokio Sought

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 18

WASHINGTON. -- The U.S. Army Under-Secretary (Mr. Tracy Voorhees) said in Washington on his return from…

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Textile Mission to Tokio Sought

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

WASHINGTON.-- The U.S. Army Under-Secretary (Mr. Tracy Voorhees) said in Washington on his return from…

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Textile Mission to Tokio Sought

Daily Mirror · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

WASHINGTON. -- Tire U.S. Army Under-Secretary (Mr. Tracy Voorhees) said in Washington on his return from…

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Farm Training at Catholic College

The Land · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 7

The aim of the new agricultural course to be introduced at De La Salle College, Armidale, says tho Roman Catholic Bishop of Armidale (Bishop E. J. Doody)…

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Priest's Big Estate £13,000 For Two New Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 4

Several large estates were granted probate in the Supreme Court yesterday. The Rev. Fr. James John…

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The Churches Plans Made For Big Expansion This Year

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 4

Leading churches have comprehensive plans for expansion in newly developing districts in 1950. The Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational…

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Protestant churchmen anti-Red

The Sun · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

"The International Council of Christian Churches is bitterly anti-Communist, said its president, Rev. Dr…

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Reds Churche Warning

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

"We do not believe christian can be a munist. The two are concilable and…

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