Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1950 — Page 4

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__ Christianity on Trial— = - | “Yugosiavs May Lack i Religious Comfort For In Hour of Death

Tito Uses Many Weapons Against Worshipers; Church Attendance Is Last Means of Protest

(Last of six eyewitness accounts)’

By FRED SPA RKS, Times | Foreign Correspondent ROME, Feb. 24-—An old, deeply religious woman wis dying In a hospital in Yugoslavia's Berajevo. Her family gathered around her bed. When the end neared the doctor nodded to her son. He hastened to the Roman Catholic ‘church, asked the priest to administer last rites. At the hospital gate the priest wi was barred. The Communist director said: “1 will permit no such) ~~ religious tripe in this institution.” spite the relentless anti-religious The father - pleaded but was "'y, Yugoslavia there is no freeturned AWAY. 4, of speech, of the press, no The family car-sreeqom to assemble in groups. ried the old lady, yout Wreedom Attacked to the church. ny freedom left to human digoy Bhe died before nity 4s the simple right of worship arriving —~with increasing restrictions, This is but one Fearing generil unrest -~ and of the many,,.4 opinfon-—Tito hesitates to ways the com: o.4100k all churches, But he munism of Mar- p,, .. against religion on all shal Tito dally other levels, for he is sworn by pecks at Chris: ,.. Marxian faith to do so

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tianity. Priests are not permitted to “function” in public institutions without a stream of red tape. In some sections—particularly Bos-nia-Herzegovena — Catholics are advised to accept the last rites before entering a hospital for a serious ailment. During my recent 10-week tour of Yugoslavia I found many such instances of this day-to-day persecution. Let me record a few more samples: During the visit of a bishop to a church in Zagreb, Communist hoodlums infiltrated the congregation. When the bishop began) his sermon they started to smoke| and chant: “Nema Boga—Nema| Boga.” (There is no God.) { Smash Valuable Windows {

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Gradually the number of churches and ministers is being reduced . . . and few replacements are permitted. Here again Roman Catholicism has been Tito's prime target. A church built by the contributions of Americans of Slovene extraction—8t, Joseph's Chiirch in Lubliana--was confiscated last year and turned into a movie studio, Seven Catholic churches In the Vouvidina, - Yugoslavia’s grain belt, were shut down as “enemy property.” They were in towns populated largely by people of “Volks Deutsch.” Ex-Itallan Areas Suffer Catholic churches in former {Italian areas now Incorporated into Yugoslavia — particularly =

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Another gang outside hurled 2l0ng the Adriatic coast and in S rocks, ny several magnifi- the Tyrol—have suffered a like = cent stained glass windows. To fate. One that escaped until reprevent a riot, the bishop lett. cently was the Church "of the E

During the last harvest many Divine Baviour in Flume, the § former Italian port.

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churches in Croatia were tempo-

rarily confiscated by the people's committees and used to store

5 ‘grain even though plenty of un-|

occupied buildings were avallable nearby. Tito's lackies seek to eliminate church marriages. Fearing world reaction, they dare not issue a

Nov. 4, Communist hacks woke S g (the priest, gave him 90 minutes S {to remove the sacragient and = blessed vessels from his “Fascist = monument.” Holes were drilled = in the basement and stuffed with = TNT, and the church was blasted into rubble.

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