NEW MOVE BY PERON
Ban On Religious Education (Rec. 11 p.m.) BUENOS AIRES, May 11. The Argentine Senate today passed unanimously a bill eliminating Roman Catholic religious education in public schools. It was the first Congressional act backing President Peron in his dispute with the church. The bill will now go to the House of Deputies The arrests of two more Roman Catholic priests were disclosed today. They brought to 33 the number taken into custody since last November, when General Yeron said some clergymen were trying to undermine his regime. Police arrested four persons, including the Rev. Bentelium Sacks, at the town of San Francisco in Cordoba. They were accused of distributing pamphlets attacking the government. Later, police in Rosario, 170 miles north-west of Buenos Afres, announced the arrest of the Rev. Janvier Irizar, a parish priest. He was charged with writing an anti-govern-ment slogan on a church wall and with trying to create a disturbance. Roman Catholic authorities today cancelled special services in the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires for the release of 16 Catholic Action leaders arrested on Saturday. They said they wanted to avoid ■ any further outbreak of i violence.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27657, 13 May 1955, Page 13
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