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P:Breakdown of New Yorkers' "religio-cultural background," as reported in a j survey by the Health Insurance Plan of j Greater New York: 47.6% Roman Cath| olic, 26.4% Jewish, 22.8% Protestant, 3.2% other and nonaffiliated. Jewish population is decreasing: between 1935 and j 1952 the proportion of Jewish New Yorkers aged 16 to 24 dropped from 31.4% to 24.1%. Protestants of the same age group, meanwhile, increased from 17.8% to 20.9% (this rise was largely due to the growth of nonwhite population).

"The day of denominational missions has, in my opinion, come to an end," said Dr. David Gnanapragasam Moses, principal of Hislop College at Nagpur, India, and Henry W. Luce visiting professor of world Christianity at New York's Union Theological Seminary. By showing Asians the bitter divisions within Western Christendom, denominational missions "sterilized the possibility of the genuine Christian community arising [and] sowed the seeds of division . . . All the travail that we now have to unite the churches is [the] result."

P:Hebrew Union College celebrated its Soth anniversary with "Thanks to Denmark" ceremonies, recalling one of the bravest mass rescues of World War II. In 1943, when Hitler sent his Gestapo to arrest all Jews in occupied Denmark, the Danes hid the Jewish population in attics, barns and cellars. Danish policemen and fishermen slipped the Jews into waiting fishing smacks that ferried them to the safety of neutral Sweden. Many of the Danish rescuers were caught by the Nazis. but of Denmark's 8,500 Jews, 7,000 were saved. Said Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union: "We Jews have long memories for righteous acts. The moral stature of Denmark and Sweden will ever be recorded in the annals of our history."

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