p. 29 | Church and State Separated in Venezuela

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 20, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 4.

Church and State Separated in Venezuela

BOTH Houses of Congress of Venezuela have unanimously decreed the Church and State separate. Several priests have been sent into exile, and some imprisoned for disobedience to the laws. All convents have been suppressed, and in some places some of the churches have been demolished, and in others devoted to civil purposes. Schools are being established throughout the country, and the Bible is being introduced into all of them. Religious liberty is secured to every one. No nation has probably ever before attempted such an utter separation between church and State, and there are points in the decree which even bear with oppressive weight upon all forms of religion. The intelligence of the State, however, will soon correct these, and then there will be complete independence of each, without either in any way being offensive or oppressive to the other.—Christian at Work.