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Protestant and Ulster
The British Army found itself fighting Irish rebels, both Protestant and Catholic, primarily in Ulster and Leinster ( Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen ) in the 1798 rebellion.
Following attacks on civil rights marchers by Protestant loyalists, as well as members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ), anger and violence mounted.
When it was deployed on duty in Northern Ireland, the British Army was welcomed by Roman Catholics as a neutral force there to protect them from Protestant mobs, the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) and the B-Specials.
In the following twenty years, the Provisional Irish Republican Army and other smaller republican groups such as the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) mounted an armed campaign against the British, by which they meant the RUC, the British Army, the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ) of the British Army ( and, according to their critics, the Protestant and unionist establishment ).
Roger was afterwards raised by Protestant paternal relatives in Ulster, the Youngs of Galgorm Castle in Ballymena and the Casements of Magherintemple, and was educated at the Diocesan School, Ballymena, later the Ballymena Academy.
In the early 17th century, large-scale settlement by Protestant settlers from both Scotland and England began, especially in the province of Ulster, seeing the displacement of many of the native Roman Catholic Irish inhabitants of this part of Ireland.
* May 17 – Dublin and Monaghan bombings: The Protestant terrorist group, the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ), explode numerous bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, in the Republic Of Ireland.
** In Northern Ireland, Protestant Ulster Defence Association Belfast leader John Gregg is killed by a loyalist faction.
IRA attacks on Catholics who joined the RUC, and the perception that the police force was " a Protestant force for a Protestant people " meant that Catholic participation in the Royal Ulster Constabulary always remained disproportionally small in terms of the Catholic percentage of the overall Northern Irish population.
William did not have a high opinion of his English and Scottish troops, with the exception of the Ulster Protestant irregulars who had held Ulster in the previous year.
In the more strongly loyalist environment of Portadown, nicknamed the " Orange Citadel ", Wright was, along with other working-class Protestant teenagers in the area, targeted by the loyalist paramilitary organisation, the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) as a potential recruit.
On the one hand, he argued that his faith drove him to defend the ' Protestant people of Ulster ', while at the same time, he conceded that the way in which he had taken that fight to the " enemy ", the cold blooded murder of non combatant civilians, would ensure his damnation .< ref >
The attacks were carried out with help from the short-lived Ulster Protestant Volunteers ( UPV ), another loyalist paramilitary group.
The legislation for Irish Home Rule was due to come into effect, allowing for the two-year delay under the Parliament Act, in 1914 – by which time the Cabinet were discussing allowing the six predominantly Protestant counties of Ulster to opt out of the arrangement, which was ultimately suspended owing to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.
The meeting's declared purpose was to organise the defence of Protestant areas against anticipated Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) activity, in the manner of the old Ulster Protestant Association after the partition of Ireland in the early 1920s.
The new body decided to call itself Ulster Protestant Action ( UPA ), and the first year of its existence was taken up with the discussion of vigilante patrols, street barricades, and drawing up lists of IRA suspects in both Belfast and in rural areas.
As Paisley came to dominate Ulster Protestant Action, he received his first convictions for public order offences.
Paisley, along with Noel Docherty established the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee, which in turn established the paramilitary organisation Ulster Protestant Volunteers on 17 April 1966 at a parade in the Shankill area of Belfast < ref name = Boulton > Boulton, David .< u > The UVF 1966-73, An Anatomy of Loyalist Rebellion </ u > Dublin: Torc Books, 1973.
* Clifford Smyth, Ian Paisley: Voice of Protestant Ulster.
Strabane has recently become involved in the Ulster Project International, sending Catholic and Protestant teenagers to the United States for prejudice-reduction work.
Unionists feared that a nationalist government in Dublin would discriminate against Protestants and would impose tariffs that would unduly hit the north-eastern counties of Ireland ( these counties all being located within the province of Ulster ), which were not only predominantly Protestant but also the only industrial area on an island whose economy was largely agricultural.

Protestant and community
consequently, the vulnerability to social difference should not be attributed to the stress on personal community in Protestant congregations ; ;
actually, there is little evidence of such personal community in Protestant congregations, as we shall see in another connection.
His father, David Ancillon ( 1617 – 1692 ), was obliged to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and became pastor of the French Protestant community in Berlin.
The term " fundamentalism " was originally coined by its supporters to describe a specific package of theological beliefs that developed into a movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century, and that had its roots in the Fundamentalist – Modernist Controversy of that time.
Another esoteric group with significant patronage is the Protestant Christian community in Chennai and Bangalore.
The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
This ban was followed by others in 1703 and 1709 as part of a comprehensive system disadvantaging the Catholic community, and to a lesser extent Protestant dissenters.
The game is mainly played and followed by members of County Donegal's Protestant community.
By the time of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, Strasbourg was a prosperous community, and its inhabitants accepted Protestantism in 1523.
In more recent centuries, the duties of the rabbi became increasingly influenced by the duties of the Protestant Christian minister, hence the title " pulpit rabbis ", and in 19th century Germany and the United States rabbinic activities including sermons, pastoral counseling, and representing the community to the outside, all increased in importance.
The ideal state is a civil community ruled by a universal or Catholic church, the principles of which are equally distinct from mere passive pietism, or faith which will know nothing, and from the Protestant doctrine, which is the very radicalism of reason.
The Bastille was used to investigate and break up Protestant networks by imprisoning and questioning the more recalcitrant members of the community, in particular upper-class Calvinists ; some 254 Protestants were imprisoned in the Bastille during Louis's reign.
A mostly foreign Roman Catholic community also about Christians especially Protestant evangelic and almost 500 Jewish, most of them live in Bejaia.
It has been noted, that the freedom Arndt envisioned was not that of a modern pluralistic society but a freedom of an archaic and Protestant tribal community.
Northern Ireland's two main communities are its Irish nationalist / republican community ( who mainly self-identify as Irish and / or Catholic ) and its unionist / loyalist community ( who mainly self-identify as British and / or Protestant ).
It is gradually becoming accepted that the union pipes originated from the Pastoral pipes and gained popularity in Ireland within the Protestant Anglo-Irish community and its gentlemen pipers.
* 7. 8 % were from a Roman Catholic community background and 86. 1 % were from the Protestant or other Christian community backgrounds.
They were in a position to support these directions to their flock since they had access to funds, to power in the community and to a well-developed underground movement headed by a prominent Protestant minister, Leendert Overduin ( Yad Vashem ).
There are also Churches of Christ, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, AME, Freewill Baptist, Episcopal, United Pentecostal, Assemblies of God, Seventh-Day Adventist and various other Evangelical churches serving Dothan's Protestant community.
The Protestant community of Rockdale County helped with the completing of the current structure.
Protestant faiths represent the largest denomination with 58 % of the Christian population, while Catholics comprise the second largest denomination, representing 38 % of Kingston's Christian community.
There are two Protestant churches in Zalma — the Zalma General Baptist Church and the Zalma Missionary Baptist Church — serving the community ’ s spiritual needs, although there are several more churches on the outskirts.
The only churches in the community were Protestant, the Presbyterian Church at Westville Corners and Methodist-Episcopal at Westville Center.

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