The Federal Council of Italian Evangelical Churches, a Protestant body, today requested the Italian Government to give full and equal treatment for all religions. The Council, noting that religious freedom in this country was threatened by restrictive regulations left over from the Mussolini regime, said that the present government had failed to carry out in full the constitutional guarantees of full and free equality of religion.
A special ceremony in Rome’s Great Synagogue yesterday paid tribute to the Italian Jewish dead of world War II and the hundreds of Jewish martyrs murdered by the Nazis at the Ardeatine Caves late in the war. A similar memorial last week was attacked by fascist hoodlums.
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