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Ottawa County News
Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio
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Dr. J. Igor Bella, a Lutheran leader banned from Czechoslovakia in 1949 after communists closed his Bratislava aid headquarters, will lead New Year's services at St. Paul's Slovak Lutheran church in Port Clinton this weekend. He now teaches at Hamma Divinity School in Springfield and recently resumed work with the Lutheran World Federation from Geneva.
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He is Dr. J. Igor Bella, presently serving as professor of Old Testament at Hamma Divinity School, Springfield, and widely known throughout the Synod as a former president. He recently returned as representative of the Lutheran World Federation. Reds closed his headquarters at Bratislava, seat for distribution of Lutheran aid among Slovak congregations, but the work was continued from Geneva, Switzerland, where Dr. Bella for six years directed aid in a half dozen European countries.
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Dr. J. Igor Bella, banned from Czechoslovakia in 1949 by the Red government, will conduct New Year's services at St. Paul's Slovak Lutheran church in Port Clinton; he serves as professor at Hamma Divinity School and recently returned from directing Lutheran aid from Geneva.