RELIGION IN CHINA
SPIRIT OF TOLERANCE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT SHANGHAI, May 10 In a striking interview with the press at Nanking, Wang Ching-wei, president of the Executive Yuan, the virtual head of the National Government, reaffirmed the decision to permit religious freedom throughout China. Wang said the Government held equal esteem for all religions whether "Buddhism, Mohammedanism or Christianity, for while the principle of religious tolerance was upheld superstition could not he confounded with religion. ]t had been decided that all forms of superstition and practising of occult art would be rigorously suppressed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21803, 18 May 1934, Page 9
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