CHURCHES UNITE

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 156, 17 September 1941, Page 5

CHURCHES UNITE

WRECKAGE OF 3,000 PLACES OF WORSHIP Movements of Britain's population (vill be taken into account before decisions are finally made 1 to build again the churches bombed by Nazi

airmen. More than 3,000 of them have been either destroyed or badly damaged and the Government will pay compensation for each., Almost every Christian denomination in Britain has a member on the Christian Churches Main Committee now considering with the War Damage Commission the problem arising out of the wreckage o.f their places of worship. Represented on it are the Church of England, the Catholic Church, the Episcopal Church of Scotland, Scotch Presbyterian Church, the Baptist and Methodist churches, the Presbyterian Church of England, the Gongregationalists and the Church of Wales. "A common misfortune has drawn the churches together,'" said Mr E. H. Johnson, secretary of the sul> committee which deals; with the question. "A church, like any ordinary fDUilding, cannot be rebuilt during the war; a licence is necessary even for essential repairs. Therefore we are looking further ahead to the time Avhen the vast task of rebuilding must be undertaken. We shall need much help in addition to Government compensation."