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Many eastern Catholics who remained in Poland after the postwar border adjustments were resettled in Western Poland in the newly acquired territories from Germany. The state in Poland gave the POC a greater number of privileges than the Roman Catholic Church in Poland; the state even gave money to this Church, although it often defaulted on ...
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 ...
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 ...
Religion in Poland is rapidly declining, although historically it had been one of the most Catholic countries in the world. [2]According to a 2018 report by the Pew Research Center, the nation was the most rapidly secularizing of over a hundred countries measured, "as measured by the disparity between the religiosity of young people and their elders."
The Nazi plan for Poland included the destruction of the Polish nation, which required attacking the Polish Church, particularly in areas annexed to Germany. [9] Biographer Ian Kershaw said in the scheme for the Germanization of Central and Eastern Europe, that Hitler had made it clear there would be "no place in this utopia for the Christian Churches".
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 .
In this era, the persecution of Christians is taking place in Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The number of anti-Christian persecutions has increased on a global scale, leading the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to release a report which highlights this trend in 2019.
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