WAR ON CHURCH

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21086, 12 July 1938, Page 7

WAR ON CHURCH

SOVIET’S LATEST DRIVES Intensified Anti-God Campaign Closing of Hundreds of Churches Grim Deeds of Red Revolutionaries United Press Association—By Sleeinc Telecranb —Convrlpr 1 (Received July 11, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. July 11. The Moscow correspondent of "The Daily Telegraph" says: “The drive against Christianity has entered a new phase with the forcible closing, preparatory to destruction, of the big Epiphany Church in the suburb of Dorogom, in Elovskaya, the main centre of orthodoxy in Moscow. It was recently renovated at the expense of a poor congregation. The sole remaining large church, also named Epipany, in the Elohovskaya district, Is also threatened. Twenty small churches remain of the 453 preRevolutionary cathedrals and churches, 25 convents and 800 chapels.”