RELIGION IN RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20901, 16 December 1929, Page 11

RELIGION IN RUSSIA

PERSECUTION BY THE SOVIET. INDIGNATION IN BRITAIN. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 14. (Received Dec. 15, at 5.5 p.m.) The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Cosmo Lang), in a letter to Prebendary Gough, in which he declined the presidency of the Protest Committee on the ground that his own position was one of peculiar difficulty and responsibility, says he shares the fullest measure of detestation of the anti-religious policy of the Soviet, and indignation is justly aroused against the persecution of all who profess any form of religion in Russia. The Bishop of London (Dr Winning-ton-Ingram), in a letter, states: “I am in favour of an Ambassador going to Russia as the only way of letting daylight into that country, but I consider that continued relations should be conditional on the cessation of the massacre of Christians and of the proscription of religion. I will remain on the commitonly as long as the movement is religious and not used for political purposes.”