Persecution

"During the last spring, heated argument developed in foreign countries as to whether religion was or was not being persecuted in the Soviet union," observed a bulletin issued by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America last week. "The answer to the question depends upon how the word 'persecution' is to be defined. Certainly there has been nothing in Russia that could be fairly compared with the persecutions of the early Christians. . . . There has never been any prohibition of the practice of any form of religious faith in the Soviet union; and every Sunday hundreds of churches in Moscow and thousands throughout the country celebrate services without interference. . . . The Communists are convinced that religion will ultimately die out in Russia because the Soviet youth is being made atheistic by every possible device of education and propaganda while the churches, although free to conduct services, are debarred from carrying on any kind of effective public counter propaganda."

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