The World - News from Sept. 26, 1985
Czechoslovakia’s top propagandist has accused the Roman Catholic Church of trying to undermine communism by making “hateful attacks” on the government. Writing in the monthly World Marxist Review, Vasil Bejda, chief of the Communist Party Central Committee’s propaganda department, accused Pope John Paul II of stirring up right-wing forces against Communist nations. He denied that the government interferes in religious affairs but added that “it is natural that the state cannot allow any interference of churches into its affairs.”
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