FIGHT AGAINST CHURCH.
MANY PRIESTS IMPRISONED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright “ The Times ” Service. (Received May 2, 9.65 a.m.) BERLIN, May 1. The Bolshevik anti-Ohurch campaign has been furthered in Georgia. The head of the Roman Catholic Ohurch was imprisoned together with from eighty to ninety per cent of the entire priesthood in the province. Armed Cheka agents scoured the whole country, requisitioning church treasures. The churches have been turned into Communist clubs, despite the opposition of the population.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17030, 2 May 1923, Page 1
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