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Protestant Visitors to Yugoslavia Made No Effort to See Bishop HurleyVATICAN CITY — (NO — The American Protestant clergymen who recently completed a “check’* on the status of religious liberty in Yugoslavia made no effort to visit Bishop Joseph P. Hurley of St. Augustine, the Papal representative in Yugoslavia, despite the fact that they were at one time only an eighth of a mile from his residence, it has been ascertained authoritatively here.’ Bishop Hurley, who is acting as Regent ad interim of the Apostolic Nunciature in Yugoslavia and has been in that country since 1945, was in the town of Bled during the visit of I he Protestant group. The visitors came to Bled to visit Marshal Tito.Another religious leader who was not consulted by the visitors and whom no effort was made to see, according to the same Vatican source, is the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Gavril.The recent mob attack upon two Catholic clergymen administering Confirmation in the ' Yugoslav-controlled section of Venezia, Giulia, in which one priest was murdered and another severely Injured, is regarded in Vatican circles the most concrete answer to the claim of the American Protestant clergymen that there is religious freedom in Yugoslavia.(News dispatches reported the arrest of Monsignor Jacob Ukmar, Vatican representative near Trieste, who was seriously wounded by the Yugoslav mob that murdered Father Miro Bulesich. Father Stefan Cek, parish priest of Lanischie, also was taken into custody. Both were charged, the report stated, with having “provoked” the rioters).PROTESTANT MISSIONARY TELLS OF “RELIGIOUS FREEDOM” UNDF.R TITOCHAPEL HILL, S. C.—(NO—' “All data from all sources show that Yugoslav Communists are endeavoring to separate the youth from the churches, to curtail church activity, as American Protestants and Catholics understand it, to prevent dissemination of Church publications, to deprive the churches of material support and to subject the nation toMarxist, materialistic, anti-religious teachings.” gThese are the finding with regard to religious freedom in Yugoslavia expressed in “Tito’s Imperial Communism,” by Reuben H. Markham, published here by the University of North Carolina Press. Mr. Markham, a former Congregationalist missionary to the Balkans and a former foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, is now on the Boston staff of the paper.“American Protestants may ‘»it back and rejoice at Tito’s Communists persecute the two old political churches”, (Catholic and Orthodox) and they can easily find reasons for Tito's displeasure,” he asserts. .“But the Yugoslav Communists, in their aims and acts, are working against the Christian religion in all its forms.” '“A true Protestant Christian will find,” Mr. Markham concluded, “that an alliance, even in his heart, with Tito against non-Protestant churches is as a ‘pact with death and a conspiracy with hell.' ”In a comment on Mr. Markham's book. The Washington Post states that ho explicitly contradicts almost every detail of the claim of religious freedom in Yugoslavia made by the delegation of American Protestant ministers.Recalling the association of the Protestant ministers who visited Yugoslavia with communist groups in this country, The New York Daily News editorially described their report as a “clerical whitewash” of Yugoslavia ami an “elaborate perfume job.”IN YUGOSLAVIA, three more priests have been arrested by Tito’s police, according to a report reaching Rome.. They are Monsignor Karkei, of the minor seminary at Ljubljana; Father Lame, secretary of the Ljubljana chancery, and Father Miklaucic, theological professor at Ljubljana.. The arrests followed a demonstration against Bishop Vovk, Auxiliary of Ljubljana In front of his residence. Four of the demonstrators forced open the doors and entered the house, but the Bishop was out of the eity on a pastoral mission at the time.
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Augusta Bulletin
Augusta, Georgia, US
Sat, Sep 27, 1947
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