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Churches, 1954

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Voluntary Laborers Build New Church

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 7

At Fairfield, a new church has been erected in six months, at a cost of just over £2000. The…

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“Flynn of the Inland” Memorial Plans Completed For Church

Construction · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 6

The architect for the John Flynn Memorial Church at Alice Springs, Mr. Arthur Philpot, of Adelaide, has designed a building as clean and as…

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Church Service for Hospitals

The Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 21

An interdenominational service of medical and nursing staffs of several hospitals will be held in…

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Presbyterian Church News

The Observer · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 3

Rev. H. J. Whitney, B.A.B.D State Evangelist of the Presbyterian Church in Queensland, will conduct an eight-days’ Mission in…

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Natives Build Church For Mission

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 5

HUNDREDS of natives freely gave their labor to help construct the new Church of St. Michael at Avuavu, Guadalcanal, in the Southern Solomon Islands…

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Marian Year Procession In Waverley Parish

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 5

ABOUT 2000 people from Waverley, Paddington and Edgecliff, with members of the Third Order of St. Francis from all parts of the Archdiocese of Sydney, last Sunday marched through…

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Non-Catholics Build Catholic Negro Hospital

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 3

BIRMINGHAM, Alabnma. —A million-dollar Catholic hospital for Negroes, the first…

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U.s. Catholic Helped with 'Electronic Brain'

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK.—An electronic brain translated Russian into English for the first time in…

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Sydney Catholic Schools to Participate in Mass Welcome Children Will See Queen Nuns Will Attend Women's Luncheon

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 2

CATHOLIC primary and secondary school children in the Sydney metropolitan area and in other New South Wales centres visited by Her Majesty the Queen during the forthcoming Royal Tour will take part in…

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"Catholic Weekly" Picture Stories Credo 'I Believe' The Gospel: Fourth Sunday After Epiphany St. Matthew 6, 23-27

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 19

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Church-School To Open At Sth. Tamworth

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 5

A NEW £14,000 church - school at South Tamworth will be blessed and officially…

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Weekly Mass For 'Church Of Silence' To Be Said In Rome Daily Pilgrimages by Nuns Memorial Planned In Honor of Pius IX

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 3

VATICAN CITY.—A weekly Mass for the "Church of Silence," a daily pilgrimage by nuns and a Solemn Memorial Mass for the Pope who denned the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception form part of the Marian Year programme announced here by the Vatican…

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Delusion, Says Churchill

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 5

LONDON, Wed.--Sir Winston Churchill today indicated he had no intention of…

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Mission to the Nation

The Methodist · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 7

Sir,—Your correspondent, "B.S.G.", deprecates the "Mission to the Nation" on the ground that the membership returns were down by 200 in the Synod reports. Even if that were the only…

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Methodist Ladies' College Burwood

The Methodist · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 4

At the recent Leaving Certificate Examination 48 girls sat and all were successful, the standard of passes being most satisfactory. Two Methodist girls, both associated…

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Methodist Stand on Drinking

The Methodist · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 3

The Methodist Church is unequivocally opposed to beverage alcohol in any form and to any degree. That was made clear when the 1952 General Conference went…

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Increasing the Church's Membership

The Methodist · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 5

The Christian Advocate for December 3 reported the results of two United Evangelistic Missions and one Spiritual Life Mission in the United States, and no one…

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The Churches Anniversary Of First Church Service Held In Australia Celebrated

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 7

The anniversary of the first act of Christian public worship on Australian soil will be celebrated at a special service at St. Philip's, Church Hill, at 3 p.m. to-morrow. It was Divine Service…

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Australia's oldest church

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 21

BUILT by a handful of free migrants in the days when New South Wales was a convict…

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"I will" should remain, says our churchmen

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 3

Most Sydney church leaders contacted today said they didn't want the words "I will" removed from the marriage service…

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