SOVIET AND RELIGION
THE LATEST DEGREE
THE “BIBLE RESTS” SUFFER
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
LONDON, April 13. The special Moscow correspondent of the ‘ Daily News ’ states that a. new anti-religious decree will shortly bo promulgated, striking at all Christian churches, especially the “ Bible pests,” as Moscow calls the Baptists. The decree will virtually prevent all Christian, social, and cultural work, as well as all local preaching or itinerant administration of sacraments in scattered areas without regular worshipping places or permanent pastors. Tho decree declares that all members of any religious community comprising twenty persons and upwards must bo registered in one church or rhnpol. and they are forbidden to worship elsewhere. —United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 20150, 15 April 1929, Page 4
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112SOVIET AND RELIGION Evening Star, Issue 20150, 15 April 1929, Page 4
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