"We're still looking for the Protestants, so if you're out there please...." laughed Dr Walsh.
The Protestants' fear of Catholic expansionism is evident in the explanations given for the hostilities.
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The Orthodox Church split with Rome 10 centuries ago and then the Protestants followed in the time of the Reformation in the 16th century.
The movie, based on a 1662 story by Madame de Lafayette, dramatizes the rivalries among Catholic dukes and princes as they fight the Protestants in the interminable religious wars of the time.
That will allow the protestants who live in a handful of streets on either side of one stretch of the Ardoyne Road alongside a much larger Catholic community to argue that they are suspending their protest because their concerns about their own safety are being addressed.
But the thing about the annual culture war that would probably most surprise those who want to "keep the Christ in Christmas" is this: The original Puritan Protestants regarded the whole enterprise as blasphemous.
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That kingdom included modern-day Belgium, and while the Belgians were Catholics, the Dutch were Protestants, raising the "problem of who would put the crown on the king's head", explains Mr van Bree.
Astonishingly, for such a divided land, the proportion of Catholics who reckon it does a worthwhile job (81%) is virtually the same as the proportion of Protestants who believe the same (77%).
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The religious right would be moribund if the fertility of conservative Protestants in the 20th century was the same as that of non-religious Americans.
He lived long enough to see the Catholics and Protestants brought together to a point where they seem poised to share power in the province.
The centres are also offering the families - mostly Protestants from both sides of the loyalist community in the Shankill - counselling and other support services, the trust said.
In the BelfastTelegraph poll, 11% of Protestants gave McGuiness the highest rating.
If the pattern of public opinion in general is bell-shaped, that of religious belief has the profile of a Volkswagen Beetle: a bump of evangelical Protestants at the front, a bigger bulge of uncensorious congregations in the middle and a stubby secular tail.
But it is true that President Obama didn't care for Gordon Brown, and doesn't have an instinctive, ancestral love for the UK that is common among Wasps (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) on the Eastern seaboard.
The softer sort of Protestants have not been breeding as prodigiously as evangelicals have.
Protestants for the Common Good, formed in 1995 to counter the impact of the religious right, has an overtly leftish agenda.
He said there was now a real chance for the service to have the full endorsement of Protestants and Catholics, including republicans.
Seven years ago, according to Pew's previous study, the unaffiliated formed about 16% of the population, mainline Protestants were about 18%, Catholics were about 24% and evangelicals 26.3%.
The SDLP's Declan O'Loan said the motion was "misconceived" as it dealt with one part of the civil service and ignored organisations in which Protestants are over-represented such as the NI Fire and Rescue Service, the Policing Board, the PSNI, and the Prison Service.
Mrr Hay said the number of attacks on Protestants was "a sad, sad tragedy".
Both Catholics and Protestants have attacked the police and each other.
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Edwards also had twice as much support among Protestants, while the Massachusetts senator fared better among those who said they did not belong to any religion.
He said it could create the incorrect impression that there were "cold houses" for Protestants at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster.
The latest two were a husband and wife team of evangelical protestants, Rosinha Matheus and Anthony Garotinho, who ran the state with a Bible in one hand and cheque book in the other.
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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Orthodox Jews, Mormons and some traditionalist Protestants have also pondered the issue and ended up proscribing or limiting contraception in different circumstances.
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But he dismissed any connection with the Drumcree stand-off and went to Portadown to insist the protest must continue, telling the crowd the dead boys were in fact Protestants.
Now there are four areas which we're working on, one of them obviously is a new and transformed police service where all sections of the community, both Catholics, Protestants, Unionists and Nationalists can participate and respect.
The dreadful scenes in Northern Ireland in recent weeks of Protestants baying at children going to a local Catholic primary school have also highlighted the dangers of segregated schooling.
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