He thereby precipitated a bitter controversy involving Protestants, Jews and Roman Catholics that continued for two months, until the city's Board of Hospitals lifted the ban on birth-control therapy.

Catholics, Protestants and Jews are in agreement over the objectives of family planning, but disagree over the methods to be used.

The Dutch Republic was born, a nation with Protestants, Catholics and Jews — and an unusual policy of tolerance.

The rise of Hitler in the 1930s led concerned Protestants, Catholics, and Jews to take active steps to increase understanding and tolerance.

Roman Catholicism is established by law as the religion of Malta with 98 %; however, full liberty of conscience and freedom of worship is guaranteed, and a number of faiths have places of worship on the island ( rather small groups, a combined total of 2 % of the people are Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, Muslims and Jews ).

Examination of these contributions indicates that Protestants, Catholics, and Jews are divided among themselves in their beliefs, and that there is no unanimity among the members of any religious establishment as to this subject.

A medal minted during the reign of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, commemorating his grant of religious liberty to Jews and Protestants.

The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna ( 2008 )

In religious respect there were 58 % Protestants, 37 % Catholics ( including at least 2 % of Poles ) and 5 % Jews ( counting 20, 536 in the 1905 census ).

For the first time Protestants were allowed, and soon after Jews.

The first part of his reign is marked by his attempts to reform the kingdom in accordance with the Enlightenment ideals ( abolition of torture, abolition of the serfdom, tolerance towards Jews and Protestants, abolition of the Taille etc .).

Although some members of the Serbian diaspora do not speak the Serbian language nor observe Christianity ( some Serbian citizens are Jews, Muslims, Protestants, Roman Catholics, Eastern Rite Catholics, or atheists ).

In the U. S., the Christian right is an informal coalition formed around a core of white evangelical Protestants that draws " support from politically conservative Catholics, Jews, Mormons, and occasionally secularists " who share their goals.

He was plunged at once into the thick of controversy ; for nearly half of Metz was Protestant, and Bossuet's first appearance in print was a refutation of the Huguenot pastor Paul Ferry ( 1655 ), and he frequently engaged in religious controversies with Protestants ( and, less regularly, with Jews ) during his time at Metz.

The population of the province in 1900 was 1, 996, 626 people, with a religious make up of 1, 698, 465 Protestants, 269, 196 Roman Catholics, and 13, 877 Jews.

Montpellier came to prominence in the 12th century — as a trading centre, with trading links across the Mediterranean world, and a rich Jewish cultural life that flourished within traditions of tolerance of Muslims, Jews and Cathars — and later of its Protestants.

Before World War II the population of the town was composed of Protestants, Jews and Catholics.

In the 1920s and 1930s, members of the extreme-right Action Française movement expressed strong animus against Protestants, as well as against Jews, and freemasons-all three being regarded as groups supporting the French Republic, which Action Française sought to overthrow.

A January 2007 poll found that 61 % of the French population describe themselves as Roman Catholics, 21 % as Atheists, 4 % as Muslims, 3 % as Protestants, 1 % as Buddhists, and 1 % as Jews.

The Vichy Regime willfully collaborated with Nazi Germany, taking state action against " undesirables ," including Jews, Protestants, gays, gypsies, and left-wing activists.

The population in 1905 was 2, 302, 179, of whom 69 % were Protestants, 30 % Catholics and 0. 5 % Jews.

The Protestant Old Testament is largely identical to what Jews call the Bible ; the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament ( held to by some Protestants as well ) is based on the prevailing first century Greek translation of the Jewish Bible, the Septuagint.

They are not accepted as canonical by the Jews ( although some ancient Jews appear to have accepted them ) and by most of the Protestants, who consider them to be apocryphal.

Conservatives, nationalists and ex-military leaders began to speak critically about the peace and Weimar politicians, socialists, communists, Jews, and sometimes even Catholics were viewed with suspicion due to presumed extra-national loyalties.

Jenkins mentions use of the word in book titles including Life among the Moonies and Escape from the Moonies, and comments: " These titles further illustrate how the derogatory term ' Moonie ' became a standard for members of this denomination, in a way that would have been inconceivable for any of the insulting epithets that could be applied to, say, Catholics or Jews.

However, John A. T. Robinson and other scholars argued for a much earlier dating, based on the fact that the New Testament writings make no mention of ( 1 ) the Great Fire of Rome ( A. D. 64 ), one of the most destructive fires in Roman history, which Emperor Nero blamed on the Christians, and led to the first major persecution of believers ; ( 2 ) the final years and deaths of Paul, who wrote most of the epistles, Peter, whom Catholics recognize as the first pope, and the other apostles ; ( 3 ) Nero's suicide ( A. D. 68 ); or ( 4 ) the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem ( A. D. 70 ), which Robinson thought should certainly have appeared, considering the importance of that event for Jews and Christians of that time.

Rabbi David Dalin's The Myth of Hitler's Pope argues that critics of Pius XII are liberal Catholics and ex-Catholics who " exploit the tragedy of the Jewish people during the Holocaust to foster their own political agenda of forcing changes on the Catholic Church today " and that Pius XII was responsible for saving the lives of many thousands of Jews.

But in other instances, Mary McAleese has been criticised for certain comments, such as a reference to the way in which Protestant children in Northern Ireland had been brought up to hate Catholics just as German children had been encouraged to hate Jews under the Nazi regime, on 27 January 2005, following her attendance at the ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp .< ref >

He wrote to the Dutch West India Company, " Jewish settlers should not be granted the same liberties enjoyed by Jews in Holland, lest members of other persecuted minority groups, such as Roman Catholics, be attracted to the colony.

By the 17th century, the city of Skopje had a diverse religious population which included Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Roman Catholics and Jews.

By 1478 Selânik ( سلانیك ), as the city came to be known in Ottoman Turkish, had a population of 4, 320 Muslims, 6, 094 Greek Orthodox and some Catholics, but no Jews.

This led to rice becoming a staple by the 15th century when Spanish Catholics expelled the Muslims and the Jews.

The first order of business of the revolutionaries therefore was to strive for the reform of the confederal state, with its discrimination of the Generality Lands, and of particular minorities ( Catholics, Jews ), in the direction of a unitary state, in which the minorities would be emancipated, and the old entrenched interests superseded by a more democratic political order.

Settlers to these colonies included Anglicans, Dutch Calvinists, English Puritans, English Catholics, Scottish Presbyterians, French Huguenots, German and Swedish Lutherans, as well as Quakers, Mennonites, Amish, Moravians and Jews of various nationalities.

" The Stone Pillow " offers the rise of the rebellion which the protagonists of " If This Goes On -" later join ; it is noteworthy that the Rebellion ( styled the " Second American Revolution " in later stories of the Future History ) includes Mormons, Catholics, and Jews, groups suppressed by the Theocracy, working in concert with Freemasons.

It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;

some Jews have in fact been all things to all men.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

It is not implied that formal principles and procedures are so firmly entrenched within the public order of the world community or even of free commonwealths that they will control in all circumstances involving Jews and Gentiles during coming years.

When we consider the disorganized state of the world community, and the legacy of predispositions adversely directed against all who are identified as Jews, it is obvious that the struggle for the minds and muscles of men needs to be prosecuted with increasing vigor and skill.

A tale of a massive reservation in the Uplands to hold several million Jews A tale of a plan to ship all Jews to the island of Madagascar Stories of the depravity of the guards at Globocnik's camps struck a chord of terror at the mere mention of their names.

At any rate, the substance of Eichmann's testimony was that all his actions flowed from his membership in the party and the SS, and though the Prosecutor did his utmost to prove actual personal hatred of Jews, his success on this score was doubtful and the anti-Semitic lesson weakened to that extent.

Antisemitism refers specifically to prejudice against Jews alone and in general, despite the fact that there are other speakers of Semitic languages ( e. g. Arabs, Ethiopians, or Assyrians ) and that not all Jews speak a Semitic language.

By no means do all Jews today believe in reincarnation, but belief in reincarnation is not uncommon among many Jews, including Orthodox.

From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe.

One of the central themes of Acts, indeed of the New Testament ( see also Great Commission ) is the universality of Christianity — the idea that Jesus's teachings were for all humanity — Jews and Gentiles alike.

Circumcision was forbidden, Iudaea province was renamed Syria Palaestina and Jews ( formally all circumcised men, Arabs too ) were banned from entering the city on pain of death.

The detachment at Jerusalem, which apparently encamped all over the city ’ s western hill, was responsible for preventing Jews from returning to the city.

He has devoted his life to making the Talmud accessible to all Jews.

Having found out that Mordechai is Jewish, Haman plans to kill not just Mordechai but all the Jews in the empire.

When Mordechai finds out about the plans he and all Jews mourn and fast.