RELIGION IN RUSSIA
BOLSHEVIK BAN ON “BIBLE PESTS” BLOW AT CHRISTIAN WORK (Australian and N.Z. Press Association^ LONDON, Saturday. A special correspondent of the "Daily News” at Moscow says a new antireligious decree will shortly be promulgated. This will strike a blow at all the Christian churches, especially at “Bible pests” as the Bolsheviks call the Baptists. The decree will virtually prevent all Christian social and cultural work, as well as local preaching or Itinerant administration of the sacraments in scattered areas without regular worshipping places or permanent pastors. The correspondent says the decree will declare that all members of any religious community comprising 20 persons and upward must be registered in one church or chapel, and they will be forbidden to worship elsewhere.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 9
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