The Archive · 1930

The Persecutions in Russia

Abhorrence at the Soviet

God Campaign" was expressed in a pronounced manner at Russian and ther churches in Great Britain and abroad yesterday on the occasion of Epiphany (old style).

The Christian Protest Movement, of which Lotd Glasgow and Lord Brentford are presidents, received a message from the Bishop of London exhorting all believers in freedom to join in a protest against the revival of methods of barbarism and religious persecution such as have. been unknown for many centuries, 'A mefiage from Geneva says that the Reforuation Hall, where the Assembly of the League of Nations fits annually, was one of two halls Geneva crowded inside and outside with record meetings attended by the heads of all religious eommunities to protest against the "Anti-God Campaign" in Russia.

Harrowing accounts of the persecution, illustrated by films, caused women to rush out sobbing

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