EVANGELIST ARRESTED
POLITICS FROM PULPIT PROVOCATIVE SPEECHES Nazi Regime Denounced Press Association —Copyright. Received 1.45 p.m. Berlin, July 1. Dr. Martin Niemoller, leader of the Confessional movement against the Nazification of the Evangelical Church, was arrested on a charge of announcing from the pulpit the names of members of his congregation who had seceded from the church, such announcement being forbidden by the Minister of the Interior. Dr. Niemoller, preaching on June 27, said that 48 members of the Confessional movement had been recently arrested. A communique confirming the arrest of Niemoller states: “He has for a long time used divine service and other church activities to deliver provocative speeches, calumniate leading persons of the State and * Nazi party, Spread untrue reports about church conditions in Germany, and to incite disobedience of laws and decrees.”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 462, 2 July 1937, Page 5
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135EVANGELIST ARRESTED Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 462, 2 July 1937, Page 5
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