Free Church
World Encyclopedia | Date: 2005
Free Church Any of a number of Protestant churches that are independent of the established church of a country. In England,
Congregationalism,
Methodism,
Presbyterianism and the
Baptist movements formed a National Council of Evangelical Free Churches.
© World Encyclopedia 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005.
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IT'S MY PULPIT AND I'LL PREACH IF I WANT TO; Rebel minister defies ban by Free Church.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 1/24/2000; 392 words
; ONE of the breakaway Free Church ministers yesterday defeated moves to stop him preaching. The Rev John MacLeod led his usual Sunday service at Tarbat Free Church in Easter Ross despite another minister turning up to take over. Mr MacLeod defied moves to have him removed from the pulpit by refusing
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 "Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK)")
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Locksmiths called in over free church factions row
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK); 4/2/2007; 494 words
; Lawyers and locksmiths have been summoned to deal with a row between warring Free Church factions in Skye. Senior Free Church figures recently moved in to reclaim the manse at Broadford, following the retirement of the Rev Allan MacIver, who had defected to the rival Free Church Continuing (FCC)
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 "Stornoway Gazette (Stornoway, Scotland)")
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FREE CHURCH IN NEW WAR OF WORDS.
Stornoway Gazette (Stornoway, Scotland); 8/8/2007; 188 words
; A NEW row has broken within the ranks of the Free Church, as the North Uist and Grimsay Free Church (Continuing) prepares to induct Rev David Blunt. A statement issued this week by the Free Church of Scotland states that the FCC are 'still illegally occupying the Free Church of Scotland church and
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Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Estonia, 1945-1989: survival techniques, outreach efforts, search for identity: Baptists are alive and well in Estonia--in spite of decades filled with attempts to destroy them.
Baptist History and Heritage; 1/1/2001; Pilli, Toivo; 787 words
; The aim of the present article is to give a general survey about Baptist history in Estonia, the northernmost of the three Baltic countries, between 1945 and 1989. This rather broad theme is observed from three aspects. First, what features characterized the relationship between the state and
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Free Church at war over control of [pounds sterling]100m; Congregations in chaos as fight over assets goes to court.
The Daily Mail (London, England); 10/13/2004; 536 words
; Byline: CHRISTINA STOKES THE warring factions of the Free Church of Scotland went to court yesterday in a fight over [pounds sterling]100million of assets. The Church split in 2000 after a senior minister was falsely accused of molesting a number of women. Five years earlier, Professor Donald
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