AGAINST RELIGION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 9

AGAINST RELIGION.

ACTIVITIES IN UKRAINE. FLOGGING FOR SOLDIERS. A. and N.Z. HELSLNGFOES. April 12. The Soviet war on religion has been intensified. The War Council in , the Ukraine has forbidden soldiers to attend church services. If they do so they will bo flogged. Anti-religious pamphlets are being distributed, and a museum has been established especially devoted to counteracting religious emotion.

PROTEST IN BRITAIN. ALL' DENOMINATIONS JOIN. A. and N.Z. LONDON, April 15. A protest against the Soviet's attack on religion, signed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Cardinal Bourne, the Chief Rabbi, General Booth, and the heads of all Nonconformist Churches, addressed to all men and women of goodwill, has been issued from Lambeth Palace. The protest says: "The ruthless warfare of the Soviet against all forms of religious belief has come to a head. Hundreds of thousands of religious people, ministers of religion of all ranks and creeds, have been subjected to savage persecution for the express purpose of rooting religion out of the land, of which a fresh illustration is the present trial for their lives of the chief religious leaders in Russia. Such a policy cannot be tolerated in silence by those valuing religion or liberty. We are confident our protest will evoke a response everywhere."