The World - News from Aug. 8, 1986
The United States issued a formal protest to Romania over the razing of a church and a synagogue in Bucharest, Assistant Secretary of State Rozanne L. Ridgway told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. Romania’s largest Seventh-day Adventist church was demolished just two weeks after the last Sephardic synagogue in Bucharest was destroyed, Ridgway said. Both were razed to make way for an urban renewal project.
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