he is a protestant baptist.ome kind of sect against the poroshenko station as a schoolboy, one of them was a uniate there, in my opinion, i appreciate ukraine too. alien, therefore , right. they are just like business projects , and that's all. i didn't sell my own people, well, nothing. i think the time will come. the time will come and they will wake up and realize that they were deceived. well, isn't the lesson class 2008. let's remember georgia was. they, too, were deceived. oh maybe. you know, during these winter holidays i was exiled in your homeland in ossetia. very nice. to my shame, the first time i spent there so many days , i was almost everywhere, vladikavkaz fiagdon. uh , the city of the dead almost everywhere throughout the republic, kormadon, of course, drove in beslan, was in the city of tears. your teskoy is also nice. and wept together stood in this school. i've been there a million times and every time i go there i can't help it every time i go there, and i can not help but that i am there any

protestant groups had few institutes. the baptists depended on a car abundance course or on sending students abroad the pentecostals and mennonites had no training institutes as with other religions, entrance to the protestant and schools were screened for party loyalty. the iron curtain country of albania boasted in 67 of having the world's first atheist country. it outlawed religious practice every place of public worship. over 2000 churches, mosques and synagogues were vandalized, closed, destroyed or to more useful secular purposes. clergy were publicly ridiculed and beaten. many were imprisoned, executed or killed by harsh treatment and. elderly albanian orthodox bishop was beaten to death for secretly saying mass a priest already in labor camp executed after hitting the pleas a fellow prisoner to baptize their child. in 1989, a father was still doing hard labor for teaching his children about god as. his son's classmates had reported to their teacher, albania, home. mother teresa had a history of religious freedom for both its c

so there was this great swedish baptist church and there's a lot of them joined other protestant denominations, sometimes with a norwegian or a swedish or a danish focus sometime times they just became acculturated into the communities and became or presbyterians. but the lutheran church during the immigration period was really a point of gathering and it was a community center. that's where people gathered not just on sundays, but throughout week for fellowship as well as for worship. you describe the museum as being established with nordic values. what does that mean? it's interesting. you know, the museum was originally founded in the late seventies and opened up to the public in 1980. and it really a community group that pulled together a community group of nordics and, you know, americans of nordic descent. it's always been supported by the honorary councils from the region. and there's always been this idea that the museum is more than a museum. it's a community gathering. so weddings and funerals is and every time there's a dignitary of any kind of significance, these all tended to come

in 1984 he was elected president of the southern baptist convention, the nation's largest protestant denomination. his leadership and dedication to spreading the word of god has impacted many generations of christians. he will be dearly missed by all who knew him. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. >> i rise today to speak up for keeping americans safe at work. on april 28, workers memorial day, we remember all those workers who lost their lived or business -- their lives or became disabled on the job. in 2001, a worker died every 101 minutes from an occupational injury. congress must take steps so all-americans can go to work without needlessly endangering themselves. 52 years ago we took a leap forward when the occupational safety and health act went into effect. the labor movement