Hum (Jan 2012)

SOME FORMS OF REPRESSION OF CATHOLIC CHURCH IN HERZEGOVINA RIGHT AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  • Marina Beus

Journal volume & issue
no. 9
pp. 222 – 248

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The paper gives an overview of the Catholic Church position in Herzegovina in the period after the Second World War till 1960s. The author speaks about the general state of the Catholic Church in the mentioned period. She also follows phases and repressive measures undertaken by the communist authorities in accordance to their ideology. They were taking over their material properties, abolishing religious schools, religious instructions, laws on marriage and register books, what denied the right of Church to issue public identification papers.

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