Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1950 — Page 6

Christianity on Trial

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Religious Comfort Even In Hour of Death

_ girl in a Belgrade cathedral. He '" ACCEPT Than the name “St.

mits. Now wed two years, they 4 * haven't sean each other since = 7E Ohio St. CA. 6608 their marriage. ee hE gn To reduce church attendance, Cod Kei

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Yugoslavs May Lack

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

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(L ast of six eyewitness accounts)

By FRED SPARKS, “Times. Forelgn Correspondent ROME, Feb. 24—An old, deeply religious woman was dving in a hospital in Yugoslavia's Serajevo. 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 was barred. The Communist director said: “I will permit no such| ~~...

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|spite the relentless anti- Feligrom| "terror. In Yugoslavia there is no freem of speech, of the press, no ifreedom to assemble in groups.

religious tripe in this institution.” The

father pleaded, but was turned away. ldo The family car-| ried the old lady|

Yo thE Church. Last Freedom Attacked Only freedom Teft to human digShe died before nity is the simple right of worship graving but |—with increasing restrictions at Wai me Fearing general unrest —- and world opinion-—Tito hesitates to ways the com- po gioek all churches. But he munish of Mar- ves against religion on all shal Tito dally, per levels, for he is sworn by pe hs a Chris- his Marxian faith to do so Hanity. | Gradually thé number of = Mr. Sparks Prie S t 8 AT€ churches and ministers is being = :s not permitted 10 requced-. and tew replacements = “function” -In public institutions, .. permitted. = without a stream of red tape. In = pr... again Roman Cathe oliclsm 2 = some sections—particularly Bos poo pean Tits prime target. = nia-Herzegovena —g Catholics are prop built by the po advised to accept the | ast rites be- tinh of Americans of Slovene fore entering a hospital for a se- 4.0 tion—st. Joseph 8 Church rious ailment. . in Lubliana-—-was .corfisc: ated last During my recent 10-week tour year and turned into a movie of Yugoslavia I found many such studio

instances of this day-to-day per- Seven Catholic churches in the secution.. Let me record a few Vouvidina, Yugoslavia's grain more samples: belt, were shut down as “enemy During the visit of a bishop to property.” They were in towns a church in Zagreb, Commimist populated largely by people of = hoodlums infiltrated the congre- German ancestry: “Volks gation. When the bishop began| Deutsch.” his sermon they started to smoke| Ex-Itallan Areas Suffer and chant: “Nema Boga—Nema| (Catholic churches in - former = Boga.” (There is no God.) [Italian areas now. Incorporated = Smash Valuable Windows |into Yugoslavia — particularly Another gang outside hurled along the Adriatic coast and in = rocks, smashing several magnifi- the Tyrol—have suffered a like =

cent stained glass windows To fate. One that escaped until re- = prevent a riot, the bishop left. cently was the Church of the £. During the last harvest many Divine Saviour in Flume, the = churches in Croatia were tempo- former Italian port. g rarily confiscated by the people's However, on the night of last :

Nov. 4, Communist hacks woke = = the priest, gave him 90 minutes = to remove the sacragient and = blessed vessels from his “Fascist monument.” Holes were drilled a “ in the basement and stuffed with SE ages earing world nr, and the church was blasted

into rubble general ban. Indirectly they -AnRyright. The. Indiapapalis. Fines. and. . strike at soldiers and governmeént Th cago Daliy New employees — easiest to handle who are married by ministers or Po w/ PAY vou get 12 tablets married a MORE for 10c, 100 for 45c.

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committees and used to store grain even though plenty of unoccupied buildings were available nearby. Tito's lackies seek to eliminate

was stationed in the capital. The LESS Joseph” guarant

day after their marriage he was

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Yugoslavia. A week later her job| as a secretary was declared * ‘non-| BAEK WORLD'S LARGEST SELLER AT |

tial” To keep her ration! go... - , was “permitted” to labor] Ro GU ARAN TE ED - Walch Repairing

on a highway in a “voluntary 20 Years Experience

work battalion.” oH LWID eo

Apart Since Wedding lis Neither gan obtain travel per =

local Communist rulers create a, fear psychology. High pressure will be applied on one area for a time. Anti - religious Hterature| will flood the towns... 1 , During services; .UDBA — state! police — agents will post them-|

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