ITALY'S NEW ROLE
(Own Correspondent-
Religious Drive in Abyssinia
— By Air Mail)
EOME, July 7. Italy is planning a new conquest of Abyssinia. It is hoped to convert the entire Coptic Church of Abyssinia to Eoman Catholicism, The Italian Press has already started the campaign. "Only points of theological subtlety separate the two churches ■ at present," deelares tho Tevere. It is reported here that the Abuna Abraham of Gondar, preaehing in the Coptic* Cathedral at Addis Ababa, told the Abyssinian churchgoers: "The Italian Government rules by the will of God. He wlio disobeys the Government disobeys God." To this Eome adds: "The Churches will not be separatod by mere points of dogma." %*" • ■ • ' ■
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 172, 7 August 1937, Page 6
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