RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
THROUGHOUT CHINA NATIONAL GOVERNMENT'S DECISION Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, May 16. (Received May 17, at 10 a.in.) In a striking interview with the Press at Nanking, Wang Ching-wci (president ot the Executive Yuan, and virtual head of the National Government), reaffirmed the decision to permit religious freedom throughout China. He added that the Government held in equal esteem all religions, whether Buddhism, Mohammedanism, or Christianity. While the principle of religious tolerance would bo upheld, superstition could not he confounded with religion. It had been decided that all forms of superstition and practising of occult art would bo rigorously suppressed.
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Evening Star, Issue 21722, 17 May 1934, Page 9
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102RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Evening Star, Issue 21722, 17 May 1934, Page 9
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