RELIGION IN RUSSIA.
FAR FROM BROKEN. • (United Service.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) RIGA, December 26. ©espite anti-religious propaganda the newspaper "Pravda" estimates that in the twelfth year of the Soviet power 40 to 50 per cent of the Russian children are still under the influence of the Church. The paper adds that there are at least 50,000 establishments occupied by 250,000 members of various cults, including Mohammedans, Buddhists and Jews. It appears that sects like the Methodists and Baptists, repressed by the Greek Church influence under the Czar, are now gaining ground rapidly. The small bourgeois, the new bureaucrats and the richer elements of peasants find powerful allies in these religious sects. The Soviet Press declares, probably [correctly, that all anti-Soviet forces have now realised the menace and have formed a united front more dangerous than ths former landlords, nobles, generals and Greek Church dignitaries.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 306, 27 December 1928, Page 7
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