Belgrade, Aug. 8.
A crowd of 2,000 people assembled at Belgrade Cathedral to-day listened in, silence while a list read containing the names of Ministers, including the Premier, M. Milan Stoyadinovitch, and fifteen members of Parliament, charged with disobeying the orders of the Holy smaller suburban churches, the people. responded efter each name: "May he be damned.
The action to-day is believed to be a sequel to the Orthodox Church's opposition to the ratification' of the Concordat with the Vaticin. Orthodox priests claim that it gives unfair privileges to the Church of Ror The provisions of the Concordat provide, inter alia, that the Roman Catholic Church shall recover estates secularized in the 18th century or be indemnified for their 16ss, including Froperty expropriated in land reforms since the War: have unrestricted rights to found monasteries seminaries and theological colleges and have entire freedom of action "in fulfilment of its mission."
Roman Catholics number 37.45 per cent, of the population of Yugoslavia while the Orthodox Church has 48.7 ver cent.—Reuter.
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