Sentence examples for growing protestant from inspiring English sources

The street demonstrations were carried out against a backdrop of growing Protestant disenchantment with the Ulster peace agreement.

Experts say that clerical celibacy and the strife between the Vatican and Beijing have made it harder for Catholicism to compete with the rapidly growing Protestant faith, which has five times as many adherents.

Concern over the growing Protestant disenchantment prompted the British Northern Ireland secretary, John Reid, to make an attention-getting speech last week to the Institute of Irish Studies in Liverpool urging Northern Ireland's political and religious leaders to tackle sectarianism head on.

The book sold 7,000 copies after its publication in 2002 and was celebrated in the anticontraception movement, which remains largely Roman Catholic but has a growing conservative Protestant wing.

Growing up Protestant in a small town in upstate New York, the commemoration of Lent was not as major an event as it would be in, say, a Catholic household.

Reforms ushered in with the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement have given Catholics more political power, and the Catholic population in this part of the city is growing, making Protestants feel under siege.

The responsibilities of the chaplaincy have grown from Protestant worship services to ethical advice, morale and welfare, and, of course, faith-based services.

The Paul Greengrass film, in which he played Ivan Cooper, the Protestant MP involved in organising the civil rights demonstration that led to 14 unarmed Catholic men being shot in the Bogside, was 'a voyage of discovery': as a Protestant growing up in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, Nesbitt had been taught virtually nothing about Bloody Sunday.

Michael Wines (NYT) NORTHERN IRELAND: BLAIR AND AHERN TO MEET Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, will meet in London next week to review the growing infighting among Protestant politicians in Northern Ireland and the threat it poses to the continuation of Belfast's new power-sharing government.

The Prime Minister's criminalization of polygamy and alcohol consumption, as well as the declaration of Sunday as a day of rest, were likewise inspired by the growing British and Protestant influences in the country.

As the violence grew, and Protestants learned to their horror that they were regarded by most of the British media and the political classes as no better than the Catholics and possibly worse, they became furious, and Paisley expressed that rage, giving their inchoate anger a top-dressing of Old Testament religion.