Religion: The Vineyard, Aug. 30, 1948

These items made religious news last week:

In Moscow, the army newspaper Red Star stated that a survival of religious faith in Russia was "hampering the triumphal progress toward Communism," and declared that this must be stamped out by "systematic, scientific, anti-religious propaganda."

In Turku (Finland), the Finnish Bible Society happily prepared to sell ten tons of coffee, a gift from the American Bible Society. Admitted free of duty by the Finnish Government and sold on the free market, the coffee would bring about twelve times the $4,500 it had cost in the U.S.—and provide the cash to buy a new Bible House...

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