Religion Under Communism

Campaigns against religion under communist rule: closed churches, imprisoned clergy, state-controlled faiths and the persecution of believers.

• Albania's Cultural Revolution: The First Atheist State

  How Enver Hoxha copied Mao's Cultural Revolution, closed all 2,169 of Albania's churches and mosques in 1967, and jailed priests for baptisms.

• Faith Under the Party: Religion in Communist China

  How the Chinese Communist Party has controlled and punished religion — from the Cultural Revolution to Xinjiang's camps and Xi Jinping's 'sinicization'.

• Romania's War on Faith: The Churches Under Communism

  How Romania's communist regime abolished the Greek-Catholic Church, let its bishops die in prison, jailed priests like Gheorghe Calciu and bulldozed churches.

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