Sentences with phrase «persecution under communism»

The experience of persecution under communism has taught the Moscow Patriarchate to value visible unity at almost any price.

Not exact matches

Though the church consistently backed the state under communism, it clearly did so under duress and the threat of increased persecution.

Communism tried to kill it, but when communism crumbled it was found that the «church» that body of believers had grown stronger under persecution.