In 2001 Protestants made up 48.59% of Belfast's population, just ahead of Catholics at 47.19%.
Protestants and Catholics became accustomed to holding secret services at night, during periods of persecution.
Police fired a number of plastic baton rounds as rival crowds of Catholics and Protestants clashed.
Mrr Hay said the number of attacks on Protestants was "a sad, sad tragedy".
"We're still looking for the Protestants, so if you're out there please...." laughed Dr Walsh.
Although some of the delegates had no religious affiliation, most were Protestants and Roman Catholics.
Ironically, although their mother was Catholic, the boys had been brought up as Protestants.
He has the goodwill of many Northern Ireland Protestants, including business people and churchmen.
St Patrick's Heritage Association spokesman Lee Reynolds claims that Protestants feel excluded from the existing event.
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Given the numbers you would expect that most tax cases involving relgion would involve Protestants.
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By Hindu temples, and mainline Protestants, Catholic Relief Services, African American churches, the United Sikhs.
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He was keen to settle just as many English Protestants as Scottish ones in Ireland.
The softer sort of Protestants have not been breeding as prodigiously as evangelicals have.
The Protestants' fear of Catholic expansionism is evident in the explanations given for the hostilities.
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Many private schools only admit Catholics, some only take Protestants, and others only accept Muslims and Hindus.
In fact, though, class matters: poorer Protestants are much less likely to vote Republican than affluent ones.
While the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 effectively ended the conflict, distrust remains between Catholics and Protestants.
That puts the unaffiliated nearly on par with evangelicals (25.4%) and ahead of Catholics (about 21%) and mainline Protestants (14.7%).
While the study isn't likely to surprise many mainline Protestants, it throws their decades-long decline in membership into stark relief.
Fast forward to 2011 and Catholics are in the majority in Belfast at 48.58%, ahead of Protestants at 42.3%.
Southern evangelical Protestants are not going to vote for a Democrat, whether Mr Falwell huffs and puffs or not.
Mainline Protestants were evenly divided, but Romney won 79 percent of white evangelicals.
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But for a given level of education, Protestants and Catholics did equally well.
The public-housing authority confirmed that the 21 recent cases of intimidation they have dealt with are of Catholics by Protestants.
When Northern Irish Protestants speak of Ulster, they mean only their six counties of the nine in that ancient kingdom.
They were poor Protestants, modest behind trim net curtains in Maunder Street, with pride in their religion, in being themselves.
But peace, and a policy of recruiting equal numbers of Protestants and Catholics, are gradually changing the face of policing.
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The group's stated mission: to attract financial support from moderate evangelicals, Catholics, Protestants and Hispanic Catholics committed to electing Sen.
Bill Clinton and Special Envoy George Mitchell teamed up with Great Britain's Tony Blair to help bring Catholics and Protestants together.
French Protestants, fleeing persecution at home, founded a Florida colony in 1564, before all but two of the Pilgrims were born.
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