RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN TURKEY.
■-..'■ —-——» .. ; ■■ PERSECUTION OF MEMBERS OP : GREEK CHURCH. ■• ■'■' • ■;.- —■"■■' By Teleerraph—Press Association—Oopyrigii. (Rec. August 17, 9.50 p.m.) Constantinople, August -17. The Patriarchate of the Greek Church has convoked a -national assembly to discuss the position of the Church.
The encyclical issued summoning tho assembly states that there has been a systematic and violent persecution of members of the Church in Turkey. Sometimes an inebriate's, . petty offence leads to a whole town. being treated as though the citizens., were-in revolt,-and innocent people have been'"sevcrely punished, churches defiled, cemeteries dug up,, priests arrested, and citizens beaten to : death'or tortured.',.,,
The Turkish Government has forbidden the ( holding of the national assembly.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 898, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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109RELIGIOUS STRIFE IN TURKEY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 898, 18 August 1910, Page 5
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