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The Pope promoted Poland's cause as well as the cause of Christians behind the Iron Curtain on an international level, to the great discomfort of the communist governments in the Warsaw Pact. [35] The church in Poland played a key role in the revolution against the regime in the 1980s and provided symbols (the Black Madonna , the suffering ...
Pages in category "Persecution of Christians in the Eastern Bloc" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
After ostensibly attaining the "legal right" to the Orthodox Church, the government of the Second Polish Republic launched the destruction of Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in the Kholm and Pidliashia regions in late June 1938. The auxiliary forces mobilized to assist with the operation included Polish state policemen, and Polish workers. [1]
“We can say that for many years this has been an unhealed wound in Polish-Ukrainian relations," said Rafal Bochenek, the spokesperson for Poland's ruling right-wing party. Poland says the 1943 ...
Adding that Christians are persecuted in more than 70 countries in the world, Carraway said, "The world has changed and it's harder to be a Christian now in the United States than it was in 1995 ...
The eastern part of Poland has a long history of Catholic–Orthodox rivalry. [29] The Roman Catholic clergy in the Chełm region in Poland was unambiguously anti-Orthodox in the interwar period. [30] [31] [32] Ukraine, which has been a religious borderland, has a long history of religious conflict. [33]
The Nazi persecution of the church was at its most extreme in Occupied Poland. The defeat of Fascism at the end of World War II ended one set of persecutions, but strengthened the position of Communism throughout the world, intensifying a further set of persecutions – notably in Eastern Europe , the USSR , and, later, the People's Republic of ...
Since 2003, hundreds of thousands of Christians have fled from Iraq, and as a result, the Christian population, which may have numbered as high as 1.4 million prior to the Iraq War, has dropped to 500,000, and the number of Christians who are currently living in Iraq is continuing to decline. Between 2003 and 2012, more than 70 churches were ...