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Communism
China Isn't Trying to Wipe Out Christianity
A new report on persecution belies important changes in the country's religious freedom.
February 25, 2013
How China Plans to Wipe Out House Churches
Report: Govt.-sponsored persecution rose 42 percent in 2012.
February 18, 2013
What China's Seven New Rulers Mean for Its 80 Million Christians
Once-a-decade Communist Party transition 'bodes well' for the surging Chinese church.
November 20, 2012
My Top 5 Books on The Cold War 
A faith-focused list on the long battle with Communism.
October 1, 2012
Grace Amid Genocide
How Cambodia's Killing Fields became an extraordinary ex-Communist's mission field.
July 9, 2012
Profiling Christians Who Have Suffered Under Chinese Communism
A non-Christian reporter profiles martyrs of the Middle Kingdom. A review of 'God Is Red.'
September 28, 2011
Vietnamese Authorities in Hanoi Cancel Luis Palau Easter Celebrations
Local officials prevent events featuring U.S. evangelist Luis Palau.
April 18, 2011
North Korean Christians Unlikely To Fare Better Under New Leader
Observers doubt world's worst persecutor of Christians will shift back toward "Jerusalem of the East."
October 1, 2010
What Robert Park Learned in North Korea
The activist on why he entered the country & what he hopes for now. An exclusive interview.
August 30, 2010
The Answered Prayers of Robert Park
Christian activist imprisoned by North Korea speaks out as Jimmy Carter brings home friend Aijalon Gomes.
August 25, 2010
God's Word for Each Person—Worldwide
Should Christians continue to smuggle Bibles into China?
August 18, 2010
The Robert Park Puzzle
Korean-Americans reluctant to discuss arrest and release of missionary who entered North Korea.
March 31, 2010
Jesus Ball in Slovakia
GoodSports reaches a culture suspicious of Christians by teaching kids how to hit an inside pitch.
March 10, 2010
Official Chinese Newspaper Publishes Call to Change Religion Policy
Religious freedom experts are surprised and cautiously optimistic, but disagree on proposal.
December 8, 2009
An Invisible Wall
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a pastor in Berlin assesses Germany's spiritual climate.
November 9, 2009
Germany's 'Cold Religion'
A Berlin-based journalist says that Martin Luther would have driven most of Germany's bishops from their pulpits.
November 9, 2009
China's 'Conscience' Missing in Action
Top Christian lawyer Gao Zhisheng vanishes as government stifles dissent.
October 23, 2009
Europe's Past Is Today's Hope
Rome won't cede the continent to secularists without a fight.
October 5, 2009
Cuba for Christ—Ahora!
The Communist island's improbable revival is 15 years old and growing stronger.
July 9, 2009
Soul Tremors
With approval from China's government, Robert Yeung brings faith-based counseling to those shaken by the May earthquake.
November 12, 2008
Facing the Anti-God Colossus
During an era of Communism and materialism, Graham urged the church to prepare.
October 28, 2008
Olympic Snapshot
Imagine swords turned into plowshares, and soldiers into soccer players.
August 8, 2008
A New Day in Vietnam
How a little NGO is helping Christians gain more freedom in a country still plagued by human-rights abuses.
May 4, 2007
What to Do with a Former Communist Informant
Should collaboration with persecutors be a bar to ministry? Poland's Catholics aren't the first to wonder.
January 12, 2007
Poland Bishop Crisis Likely to Worsen
Plus: The clergy abuse scandal at five years, the latest on Judas Iscariot, ex-gay sheep, and other stories from online sources around the world.
January 9, 2007
Weblog Friday Update: New Catholic Archbishop of Warsaw Said to Be Communist Collaborator
Plus: Religion in the new Congress, and other stories from online sources around the world.
January 5, 2007
The God Who Lives and Works and Plays in Russia
Despite increasing repression, the life of Christ emerges in surprising ways.
November 22, 2006
Ministries Eager but Skeptical on Cuban Change
Evangelistic and church groups not partying like it's 1989, when communism fell in Eastern Europe.
August 10, 2006
Ronald Reagan's Faith, Not Just Policies, Undermined Communism
The author of God and Ronald Reagan discusses the spiritual life of America's 40th president
June 1, 2004
Vietnam's 'Appalling' Persecution
Activists want Washington to confront Communist leaders for torturing and killing Christians
January 1, 2004
'New' China: Same Old Tricks
"Top communists, despite their denials, endorse arrest and torture of Chinese Christians by the thousands."
March 11, 2002
Bulgaria's church: Bulgaria's other crisis
The church is faced with a choice of a new leader from a list of three metropolitans, two of which were agents of the secret police (The Economist)
Czech Republic's deal with 16 religious groups signed
Govt. will pay 59 billion koruna ($3.1 billion) in financial compensation over the next 30 years and give back 56 percent of the religious property now held by the state (Associated Press)
Czech parliament votes to return confiscated church property
The law envisages handing churches land, property, and financial compensation worth about $7 billion over a period of 30 years (Reuters)
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