JUGO-SLAV CONCORDAT

Grey River Argus, 10 August 1937, Page 7

JUGO-SLAV CONCORDAT

With Catholic Church ORTHODOX CHURCH'S OPPOSITION. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] BELGRADE, August 8. Ten members of the Cabinet, including M. Stoyadinovitch, and fifteen Deputies, including M. Stoyadinovitch’s brother, were denounced from the pulpit in the Orthodox Churches throughout Jugo-Slavia, for supporting the Concordat. Ecclestiastical Courts will try them later Two thousand silently listened at Belgrade to the excommunicatory roll call, but the suburban congregations greeted each name with the response “May he be damned.” Pamphlets ask the populace to boycott those excommunicated. Orthodox authorities refused to baptise the Postmaster-General, M. Kalouejerchitch’s newborn son.

GERMAN CHURCH. i BERLIN, August S. Apparently in order to prevent a demonstration, the police cancelled Martin Niemoller’s service at Dahlem Church. The service was held outside the church, the crowds defying the police orders to disperse until wholesale arrests were effected, including several pastors.