With Marxism on the rise, Nowa Huta, Poland was planned to be a communist city fashioned to be a model of an atheistic, industrial society with no churches. On April 27, 1960, police were deployed to remove a cross from a church construction site, which sparked what is frequently known as the “Defense of the Cross” protests.

A Scottish immigrant, Scott was one of the most effective early evangelists of the Stone-Campbell (Restoration) Movement in the United States. He arrived in the United States in 1818, and he became closely connected with reform efforts led by Alexander Campbell and those who sought to restore New Testament Christianity free from denominational creeds.