Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again & again the Pope implied that he was defending not only the rights of the Catholic Church, but generally the "rights of religion which this valiant prelate tirelessly propounded . . ." He cited the ''unanimous consensus of free peoples, expressed . . . even ... by those who do not belong to the Catholic Church...
...Mindszenty's tormentors the Pope said: "Let us all pray . . . that those who rashly dare to trample on the liberty of the Church and the rights of human conscience may at length understand that no civil society can endure when religion has been suppressed and God, as it were, driven into exile...
...State Department was considering action under the U.S. peace treaty with Hungary, in which Hungary undertook to guarantee freedom of religion and expression to its citizens. The House of Representatives unanimously called for U.N. action against Hungary...
...Geneva meeting closed with an angry, 1,000-word manifesto which said, in part: "Governments which claim to guarantee freedom of conscience and religion are in fact denying it ... Officers and members of churches have been arrested and imprisoned on an ever-increasing scale . . . We see ... a deliberate attempt to undermine the strength of churches by forcing them either to withdraw completely from public life or to become tools of secular policy . . . We reaffirm . . . that every person has the right to express his religious beliefs...
...representatives of 40 U.S. and Canadian denominations talked and listened to each other. In the end, they firmly rejected parochial schools. The council recommended: 1) that Protestant parochial schools be discouraged as "a serious threat" to public education and democracy; 2) that the cultural and nonsectarian aspects of religion be taught through such subjects as history and literature in the public school curriculum; 3) that weekday religious education on a "released time" basis be continued...