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Show Portugal Lets Nuns Back But Bars Convents Return After 20 Years of Exile, but Can Not Wear Their v Hebit. LISBON. May It (AP) After 20 rears exile, Portuguese nuns have been allowed to reenter their native na-tive country, but under provisions which bar convent Ufa wearing of habits la public and the teaching of religion In slat, schools. The restrict Ions, however, represent repre-sent a considerabl. relaxation of the decrees under which all re-llglous re-llglous orders war. expelled from the country by the anticlerical gov eminent of Alton.. Costa In HU, Now the nuns ar. permitted t. work in private hospltsls. instils. Hons for the blind and other ehsr. liable Institutions. They sr. also allowed to teach religion privately. Throughout the re years the only sisterhoods that have been represented repre-sented In the eountry hav. been Irish nuns of the Beau Success convent con-vent and Wench nuns of th. St. Louis hospital. Both these Institutions Institu-tions were considered territories of the frlsh and French governments snd therefor, beyond th. reach of th. anticlerical ban. Th. readmisslon of tb. native nuns for private work follows, too, a change In policy which restored them to full standing In th. colo-nle. colo-nle. where missionary end parochial paro-chial schools are run by thrm and by Portuguese prlesU. Until this step waa taken the only religious education In th. African possessions posses-sions wss given by foreign missionaries mis-sionaries who taught the blacks different dif-ferent languages and various creed. In some Instsnces disorders broke out between Protestant and Catholic converts and the government also found that th. Portuguese language waa making little or no headway among th. blacks. B. th. government govern-ment has authorised reopening of th. Franciscan monastery of Y, rate ra-te ro. near Torre. Vedras. to trals missionaries for Africa, and It has also restricted Instruction there In anything but Portuguese. A still further sign of Improved relations between slat, and ohurch la a concession of the letter's right to own landed property. Hrveral churches which had been turned Into government offices hsv. been restored to publla worship and soma observers go so far'as t. predict pre-dict that ere long a fortnsl concordat con-cordat will be negotiated between Portugal and th. Vatican- |