The church stands where the Catholic Short Strand area meets the Protestant lower Newtownards Road.
Catholic Clandeboye Gardens, which Cluan Place tucks into, protrudes from Short Strand into the Protestant heartland.
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This was the faith brought over by the Protestant reformers who settled in Massachusetts in the 1600s.
The Protestant Unionists, or at least the majority that accept the agreement, have also had to move.
The Protestant group announced its plans to commemorate St Patrick - Apostle of Ulster at Belfast City Hall.
"The Protestant community of this area are in constant fear of raiders from across the border, " he said.
The minister said Stranmillis had effectively become a non-denominational college when the Protestant "transferors" left the board of governors.
In 1483, Martin Luther, German religious reformer who began the Protestant Reformation, born.
The latest census figures for Northern Ireland show there has been a continuing decline in the Protestant population.
The result was reflected in dwindling unionist representation and a "drastic fall" in the membership of the Protestant churches.
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Donne was 43 when he agreed to be ordained in the Protestant church.
But I still believe a crucial foundation of the American dream is that unfashionable belief called the Protestant work ethic.
Lord Morrow of the DUP wanted to know why only 7% of the St Mary's workforce came from the Protestant community.
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One of the reasons for the decline in the Protestant population is that it is an older community with higher mortality.
Some of the Protestant residents refused to let children reach the school saying their community was facing republican attacks and intimidation.
On Saturday, up to 1, 000 members of the Protestant Apprentice Boys and bandsmen took part in an Armistice Day commemoration in Belfast.
The last time I checked this was the core of capitalism and the Protestant work ethic that this country was founded upon.
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Most American readers, I'm sure, would have to think twice before deciding which is the Catholic and which is the Protestant position.
In 1960 a Catholic running for president had to persuade the Protestant majority that he would not take orders from the pope.
Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton, traveled to Northern Ireland three times in an ongoing effort to bring the Protestant and Catholic communities together.
This is the sort of thing that led to the Protestant Reformation.
Another group, the St Patrick's Heritage Association, are planning an education programme which would help the Protestant community learn more about the saint.
He emphasised the situation at the University of Ulster Magee campus in Londonderry where 15% of the students are from the Protestant community.
It is worried that if that happened, the Protestant community would leave the village and they believe that would not be in anyone's interest.
Nationalist residents on the lower Ormeau Road in the city are trying to stop the Protestant Apprentice Boys organisation from walking past their homes.
But though Mr Robinson is not, perhaps, Belfast's most popular politician, he is beyond doubt the ablest exponent of the Protestant and unionist cause.
And yet during the period of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) Elizabeth was one of the foremost power brokers for the Protestant cause in Europe.
The best-known was devised by Max Weber, a father of modern sociology, who drew a connection between the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
The new political settlement in Northern Ireland would not be allowed to degenerate into the crude ascendancy of the Protestant majority that prevailed before the Troubles.
Portadown district spokesman David Jones said the shooting, coming in the wake of three recent murders, would only serve to heighten tensions within the Protestant community.
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