Baptist and Protestant churches have far fewer leaders than the Catholic Church.

浸信会和新教的领袖比天主教少得多。

So, many French people who belonged to Protestant churches settled in the British colonies.

因此，许多信奉新教教会的法国人定居在英国殖民地。

Even so, more than 100,000 Germans leave the Catholic and Protestant church every year.

尽管如此，每年还是有超过10万德国人离开天主教和新教教堂。

Roman Catholic and Protestant church leaders on Sunday asked for calm and told people to remain strong as anxiety about the future continues to mount.

罗马天主教和新教的教会领袖周日呼吁民众保持冷静，并告诉民众要坚强起来，因为对于未来的焦虑仍在不断增加。

The Reformation movement in Western Europe aimed at reforming some doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the establishment of the Protestant churches.

西欧的宗教改革运动旨在改革罗马天主教会的一些理论和实践，并导致了新教教会的建立。

Protestant churches invested in mighty pipe organs.

新教教会投资于强大的管风琴。

When completed in 1743, this was Germany's tallest Protestant church.

1743 年完工时，这是德国最高的新教教堂。

Catholic in religion, they had been compelled to support a Protestant church.

他们是天主教徒，被迫支持新教教会。

Half a world away, one Catholic congregation recently met at a Protestant church in Baltimore, Maryland.

在半个世界之外， 一个天主教会众最近在马里兰州巴尔的摩的一座新教教堂聚会。

It has been characterised by conflict between Roman Catholics and Protestants and by division into separate Protestant churches and sects.

它的特点是罗马天主教徒和新教徒之间的冲突，以及分裂成独立的新教教会和教派。

Of those two groups, the Protestant churches are in a majority – that is to say, most Christians are members of a Protestant group.

在这两个群体中，新教教会占多数——也就是说， 大多数基督徒都是新教群体的成员。

His favourite thesis was that the Protestant churches were Old Testament, righteous sects, and knew nothing really of Christ's teachings of love and forgiveness.

他最喜欢的论点是， 新教教会是旧约中的正义教派，对基督关于爱和宽恕的教义一无所知。

This custom of the Easter egg can be traced to early Christians of Mesopotamia, and from there it spread into Russia and Siberia through the Orthodox churches, and later into Europe through the Catholic and Protestant churches.

复活节彩蛋的习俗可以追溯到美索不达米亚的早期基督徒，并从那里通过东正教传播到俄罗斯和西伯利亚，后来通过天主教和新教传入欧洲。

In Europe, Christian churches controlled divorce from the 11th century on, with the Catholic Church banning it entirely and Protestant churches allowing it in restricted circumstances, particularly adultery.

在欧洲，基督教会从 11 世纪开始控制离婚，天主教会完全禁止离婚，新教教会在有限的情况下允许离婚，尤其是通奸。

However, the evidence remains  tenuous and all that can be said for certain is that William seems to have conformed to the  established Protestant church during his lifetime.

然而，证据仍然薄弱，唯一可以肯定的是，威廉在世时似乎已经遵守了既定的新教教会。

The greater part of the protestant churches of Switzerland, which, in general, are not better endowed than the church of Scotland, produce those effects in a still higher degree.

瑞士的大部分新教教会，一般来说，并不比苏格兰教会有更好的天赋，但在更高程度上产生了这些影响。

In the church of Rome the industry and zeal of the inferior clergy are kept more alive by the powerful motive of self-interest, than perhaps in any established protestant church.

在罗马教会中，劣等神职人员的工业和热情在强大的自我利益动机下保持得更加活跃，也许比任何已建立的新教教会都要活跃。