RUTHLESS WAR

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 177, 14 April 1923, Page 7

RUTHLESS WAR

SOVIET CAMPAIGN AGAINST RELIGION INTENSIFIED SOLDIERS FORBIDDEN TO ATTEND SERVICES By Telegbaph.—Pbess association. —OoI'YBIOHT. Helsingfors, April 12. Tho Soviet war ’on religion has been intensified. The War Council in the Ukraine has forbidden soldiers to attend church services. If they do so, they will be flogged. Anti-religious pamphlets are being distributed, and a museum established specially devoted to counteracting religious emotion. Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH CHURCHES’ PROTEST SAVAGE PERSECUTION OF ALL CREEDS London, April 12. A nrotest, signed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Cardinal Bourne, the Chief Rabbi, General Booth, and tho heads of all the Nonconformist Churches, addressed to a” men and women of goodwill, has been issued from Ijambeth Palace, declaring that the ruthless warfare of the Soviet against all forms of religious belief has come to a head. “Hundreds or thousands of religious people and ministers of religion of all ranks and creeds have been subjected to savage persecution for tho express purpose of rooting religion out of the land. .A fresh illustration of this is seen in the present trial for their lives of the chief religious leaders in Russia. _ Such a policy cannot be to’erated in silence by those valuing religion or liberty. We are confident that our nrotest will evoke response' everywhere.” Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.