(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
What is intended to be a world wide movement of protest against the ill treatment of Baptists and other religious and racial minorities in Roumania was launched at the annual meeting of the Baptist Laymen’s Missionary Movement in England.
Rev. J. H. Rushbrooke, president of the Baptist Union and secretary to the Baptist World Alliance, made severe charges against the Roumanian government in an address he dehvered last night at the annual dinner of the union. Raptist prachers in Roumania are prohibited from preaching, are fined and imprisoned. The Executive Committee of the Baptist World Alliance has decided to initiate a world wide protest against this situation. The Union is also considering the matter of submitting an official protest to the League of Nations against Roumania, he stated
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