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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Otto von Bismarck

In 1872, in compliance with a law that had been passed, all Jesuit
priests in the country were rounded up in a single night and their institu-
tions confiscated. In compliance with the "May laws," (maigesetze) passed
in 1873, all priests working for the government were fired, the Church was
forbidden involvement in all matters related to marriages and education,

and topics of sermons was restricted. A number of archbishops were ar-
rested and 1300 churches were eventually found without a priest.
But, because these tactics produced a strong reaction among the

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