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Censorship of the Bible includes restrictions and prohibition of possessing, reading, or using the Bible in general or any particular editions or translations of it. Violators of Bible prohibitions have at times been punished by imprisonment, forced labor, banishment and execution, as well as by the burning or confiscating the Bible or Bibles ...
In the 1950s, the Romanian Workers' Party had started purging the libraries of the Romanian People's Republic (Romanian: Republica Populară Romînă, RPR), by burning any books mentioning Bessarabia or the Bukovina and German and Italian translations of Romanian literature. The entire contents of the Casa Școalelor had been emptied, with ...
The Irish Censorship of Publications Board was not obliged to reveal its reason but it is believed that it was rejected for its critique of Irish republicanism and the Catholic Church, and its depiction of adolescent sexuality. [17] The Country Girls: Edna O'Brien: 1960 Novel Banned by Ireland's censorship board in 1960 for its explicit sexual ...
The censorship of such writings was legalized under the institution of the 1950 Suppression of Communism Act. This act was the government's tool to refute any anti-government propaganda being released against the Apartheid, allowing the works of any person who had left the country or who was considered to have acted against the state to be ...
Censorship of books, pamphlets, newspapers, telegraph, radio, mail, and public speech was extensive during World War II. [90] [91] Censorship regulations were drafted in September 1938 during the Munich Agreement and were brought into force on 1 September 1939. [92]
University of Illinois professor Emily Knox, author of “Book Banning in 21st Century America,” discusses the recent targeting of reading material in schools and libraries.
The burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question. [1] Book burning can be an act of contempt for the book's contents or author, intended to draw wider public attention to this opposition, or conceal the information contained in the text ...
Censorship of the Bible; Christian observances of Jewish holidays; Christian persecution complex; Christian views on astrology; Christianity and colonialism; Christianity and politics; Christmas controversies; Columbus Day; Conflicts between Iglesia ni Cristo and Members Church of God International; Crusades