Only a few Protestant leaders, however, joined their call for a tighter restriction on abortion.
But the reassurances did not sit easily with some Protestant leaders, who asserted that they were being sold out.
Protestant leaders believe that no other churches in the United States have taken such a step.
Before it began, he notes, came a campaign in which five Protestant paramilitary leaders were gunned down.
The Protestant leaders have toned down their threats to walk away from the peace effort and the framework.
None of the evangelical or Protestant leaders who were criticized attended the meeting today.
Blake was a powerful Protestant leader in the 1950s and 1960s.
Protestant leaders sounded pessimistic during a break in the talks this evening.
Protestant leaders say such steps would be intolerable concessions to the Catholic side.
Protestant leaders also rejected the terms of the Interim.