This day in history - January 22

Posted 9:25pm CT Jan 22, 2008 in Minneapolis

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

2001: President George W. Bush reinstated full abortion restriction on U.S. overseas aid programs.

1999: The Australian evangelical missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burned to death by a Hindu gang in the state of Orissa, India. – Staines had joined the Evangelical Missionary Society of Mayurbhanj (EMSM) and started his work in 1965. with leprosy patients. Later, he took care of the Leprosy Home at Baripada. He also translated the Bible into local languages, preached the Bible and held Bible studies in jungle camps for the local people. The man who had set fire to the station wagon in which Staines and his two sons slept was convicted and sentenced to death.

1973: The U.S. Supreme Court published its landmark decision in the case Roe. v. Wade, which in practice legalized abortion on demand in the United States.

1945: Birth of Christoph Schönborn OP, a Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Vienna since 1996. – Cardinal Schönborn studied theology in Regensburg under Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Schönborn, who is a specialist on oriental churches, became a member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission in 1980 and in 1987 he became the editorial secretary of the world catechism of the Roman Catholic Church. (Photo credit: Th1979, GFDL license.)

1913: Birth of the influential American evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry. – He participated in the establishment of the National Association of Evangelicals in 1942 and Fuller Theological Seminary in 1947. On the invitation of Billy Graham, who founded the magazine Christianity Today in 1956, Henry was the magazine’s first editor-in-chief, until 1968. Henry died in December 2003, praised as one of the most influential evangelicals in the United States. His most important work is a six-volume God, Revelation, and Authority, published in 1983.

1904: Death of Laura Vicuña Pino, a virgin Chilean girl who died a martyr. – Laura was a girl who loved Jesus Christ, spent much time in the chapel of her school, and wanted to become a nun to serve the poor and needy people. During the civil war in Chile, her mother forced her to be a lover of a local man of power, who mistreated her to death when she did not want to yield to him. Before she died, Laura said to her mother that she gave her life so that her mother would repent and give her life to Christ, which she did. Laura Vicuña was beatified by Pope John Paul in 1988. The picture shows a painting of Laura Vicuña (copyright unknown), widely circulated in Chile.

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1536: Death of Bernhard Knipperdolling, the leader of German Anabaptist rebellion during the Protestant Reformation and Lord Mayor of the city of Münster, Germany.

1521: The Diet of Worms (a general assembly of the German Empire) was opened in Worms, Germany, by Emperor Charles V to deal with the Protestant Reformation and the beliefs of Martin Luther. – It was at the Diet of Worms where Martin Luther said in his speech, according to the tradition: “Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.” (In original: “Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen.”)

1506: The first contingent of the Swiss Guards of the Pope arrived to the Vatican, Rome. - The papal Swiss Guards, officially called the Corps of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, are the Vatican’s only military force. The guards, who are a mercenary force, are all Catholic single men of good conduct who have had a military training in Switzerland and hold the Swiss citizenship.

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TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!

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