PERSECUTION OF CHURCH IN POLAND
WARSAW, April 24. The Roman Catholic hierarchy told Poland’s missions of Roman Catholics today to ignore charges that priests were enemies of the. State and to disregard all attacks levelled against them by the Government-controlled press. l , A strongly-worded pastoral letter deplored the arrest of priests, and said that their seizure on alleged anti-State activities was ridiculous., The letter was signed by all the bishops, and by Archbishop . Stefan Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, and Adam, Cardinal Sapieha. The letter said that many members of the clergy had lost their liberty and that their bishops had been unable to 'ascertain the charges or see the priests concerned. The letter said that the . Church still demanded the enforcement of constitutional guarantees of all -religious freedom,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1949, Page 3
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