SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1923, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

[by TEr.EOHAPfl —PElt PIIESH ASSOCIATION. | THE SOVIET AND CHURCH. SOLDIERS FOE HIDDEN TO ATTEND (Received this day at 11.10 n.m.) HELSINGFORS, April 12. The Soviet war on religion is intensified. The War Council in the Ukraine lias forhidden the soldiers to attend cliureh service. If they do so they will he linked. Anti religious pamphlets are lieing distiUnited and a museum established specially devoted to dounter acting religious emotions. CHCEC'HW/N I’ROTKST. against soviet rkkslcttiox. (Received this day at 11. to n.m.) LONDON. Ap'd !_-• A protest signed by the Arcnl’OiV'ps or Canterbury and Void- Cardinal Bourne, the Chic-1 Raldii. t tenoral Booth and heads of all Non-Conformists Churches, addressed to ad men am women of goodwill, has been is-i-ul from Lambeth I’alace. dedarii.u 111 ruthless warfare of the Soviet against ail forms of religious beliefs has e'.i.»e to a head Hundreds of .thousands of religious people and Ministers oi icligion of all ranks and creeds ’nave '-ecu subjected to savage persecution for the express purpose of rooting religion on. of the land, of which a Iresli iiiu- .ia . tion is the present trial for their lives of the clnef religious lender- m E"*sia. Sm-li a police ennnu: to tah-r-it-l in silence by those vnln.ii; liberty. We are et .iT V-r*. our p otmi will evoke a rcspin cveiywl-o'e.