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The ban against public worship imposes restrictions on
burial services, and on the distribution of religious litera-
ture, but limited activities are conducted. Most cities and
towns with civil cemeteries permit public Protestant and Jewish
burial rites. In some cases the number of persons in the
procession is limited and occasionally the services must be
conducted at abnormal hours. Protestant clergy admit that
their Bibles and other literature are distributed clandestinely
throughout Spain.
The activities of non-Catholic Spanish citizens are cur-
tailed much more than are those of their churches and ministers.
A child can be expelled from public and private schools for
refusing to attend Mass or receive Catholic instruction. All
military conscripts must attend daily Mass, regardless of their
religious affiliations. Anyone who has been baptized a Catho-
lic, even as an infant, must be married in the Catholic Church.
Should a former Catholic marry outside the Church, the husband
would be deprived of his right of franchise as head of the
family and would not receive the additional wages granted a
worker for his wife and children.
There are now 163 Protestant Chapels in Spain as compared
with 166 at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
Private services are also held in some 50 homes. Approximately
25,000 persons profess the Protestant religion, an increase of
about 5,000 over the total for 1936. There are two Jewish
Synagogues in Spain, one with a membership of about 75 persons,
in Madrid; the other, in Barcelona, with a following of between
1,000 and 1, ,500.
The leaders of the non-Catholic minorities in Spain wish
to clarify their status. The principal privileges they desire
are: freedom to open new places of worship, to build chapels,
and to publish and distribute the Bible and other religious
literature; to have schools for their children; the right of
civil marriage for those who are not Roman Catholics; and the
right to hold public religious burial services.
The greatest problem confronting Protestant and Jewish
minorites is the insecurity of their situation which arises
from their highly restrictive legal status. Recently, there
have been a few reports of mild persecution of non-Catholics.
These cases have decreased considerably in the last few years,
and government
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