The rights of worship of members of non-Catholic religions in Italy are fully confirmed and non-Catholic clergy are authorized to assist in public hospitals and in prisons by the regulations of the law for non-Catholic religions in Italy, passed in June, 1929, and made public here today.
The regulations also provide that non-Catholic clergymen are to be exempt from military service in time of war and that they may provide religious aid to non-Catholic soldiers. Students in non-Catholic seminaries of rabbinical schools may postpone their military service until after graduation and parents of non-Catholic students in the elementary schools are entitled to claim exemption for their children from religious instruction.
The new law makes provision also for instruction in a special religion within the school premises when the number of non-Catholic students is sufficiently large to warrant it. Schools in non-Catholic communities may be subsidised by the state or by the municipality.
A law regarding the organization of the Jewish communities along the lines proposed by a special government commission, created for that purpose last October, to the ministry of worship, is expected soon.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
