CHURCH QUESTION IN YUGOSLAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005500820001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2007
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains Information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws. Title 18, U.S.C. secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Church Question in Yugoslavia
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 22 Dec. 1954
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1. On 14 October 1954) Dobrivoje Radosavijevic, chairman of the State Commission
for Religious Affairs in Belgrade, in a speech to representatives of the Serb-
ian Orthodox Association of Priests, expressed the dissatisfaction of the
Yugoslav Government with the Roman Catholic Church. He was referring to com-
plaints by the high Catholic clergy on the oppression of their Church which
opposes the state-supported associations of priests.
2. On 11 October 1954) Bishop Franz Francicl was fined 50,000 dinars because he
told priests in a circular letter that the Catholic Church was faced with great
difficulties because it had no schools, organizations or newspapers. He had
also stopped four priests from joining the state-supported association of
priests.
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