Church aids strikers
(N.Z Press Assn.—Copyright) MADRID, August 30. The Roman Catholic Church in Spain earmarked all the money collected at Masses on the Canary Islands yesterday for a cause it has never championed before: the support of striking workers. The decision to hand over the week-end’s church collections to the families of 400 striking transport workers was announced in a pastoral letter by the Bishop of Las Palmas.
At the same time, there was open conflict between a local church authority and local government at the opposite end of the country. In the northern industrial city of Bilbao, the city council severed relations with a suburban church after it had been told curtly not to bother to send representatives to local religious festivities. The root of the trouble appeared to be the church’s support for a campaign against alleged official indifference to air-pollution problems.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19710901.2.175
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32700, 1 September 1971, Page 21
Word Count
145Church aids strikers Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32700, 1 September 1971, Page 21
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in