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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp82-00457r009200470001-2: THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND ITS COMMUNICANTS IN VRSAC
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11~V ~~A ~.6i of V b ~ O Vri' Ic.~r.t dy ?tk' u~.E_ _'. FORMATION REPORT CD NO SUBJECT correiztive labor in prison as a non: Worker harmful to society. in Vrsao . The "Rcaxrir n C hol3 c Church and its C oaamunicants 1, The episcopal palace in Vrsac. remains at the disposal of State authorities who have converted it into an orphenns r homnb The organist of the Roman. Catholic Church in that city wa.s seized in the street and was sentenced to ious processions are prohibited by state authoritioc as hazards to R li 2 g b e the movement of every day traffic. On. C.;.eid Friday of 1951, ; amp3 3 f'ier?s i n the Large cities worked all day,b transmitting danco music. 3 I?ern'e-,:?s of organized youth movements are forbidden to attend l r.ss'or 'othor?' y :i.nesludin areray who did not do ? o before the war. The churches are so crowded that sometimes people must remain in the court;;tards, 5. The people have labeled some, priests a.' 14'reds" because of their sympathy for Co n,unisln. As soon as one of these priests begins to preach, the people leave the chur,~h with marked hostility. This treatment is lu?aown to have been 'meted sacred rites, while other individuals find themselves hindered in attending, Services, Teachers are outrightly prohibited from visiting churches or participating in religious feasts because, according to State organs, such oce 'sion.; coustitute'a superstition and propagate a mysticism which must be eradicated from present-day Yugosla- ia.. 4? Many of those who are neither subjected. to -the discipline of the Camunist nor dependents of the State now to to church regularly on feast days, Part out to a priest named Swmiilov in Novi Sad. sesument No CUange 111 1111"; I~ee4aasiC~d f ViaM h A .T CL SSIFICATiON S , a TAONTROL - IT. S. OFFICIAIS OINLY STATE I t 1 YV WSRB DISTRIBUTION ARMY AIR _ __ ~_ F[iI ` r 'qvu 03 0' f ase 1999/09/09: CIA-RDP82 00
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The Congo, short for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is an equatorial country located in central Africa. As of July 2018, the CIA World Factbook lists the Congo containing over 85 million inhabitants representing over 200 African ethnic groups.
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