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A 3 page paper that reports the total restrictions on the Church during communist rule and discusses issues related to progress in the church after communist rule. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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communism. For instance, in 1993, Father Leonid Kishkovsky wrote that Orthodox Christians were still being persecuted following the fall of communism. Kishkovsky (1993) also provides important information about the Orthodox
Christian faith in Eastern Europe; he says that it "permeates every facet of the culture and history of the eastern Slavs: language, art, architecture, literature, customs, habits, values, and
hopes." This means this faith has a total impact on the population much as certain religions have in other parts of the world. But, during the reign of communism, the
church, which had been very influential was suddenly quieted and her voice did not emerge again until the fall of communism (Kishkovsky, 1993). During those decades of totalitarian rule,
churches were banned from any kind of public display (Kishkovsky, 1993). The icons, paintings and other religious-oriented items and practices were prohibited (Kishkovsky, 1993). As this author reports, and what
we all know, is that during those more than seven decades, "Orthodox Churches in the Soviet Union in general, have suffered massive, sustained, and violent assault and persecution" (Kishkovsky, 1993).
Numerous religious persons, i.e., nuns, monks, bishops, priests and even fervent lay persons were martyred during those years" (Kishkovsky, 1993). It was a time of torture and death to anyone
daring to practice their Orthodox faith. What happened in Russia also happened in all of the Eastern Bloc. It was under President Mikhail Gorbachev that churches were allowed to
emerge from the shadows (Marsh, 2005). He granted "the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) the status of a legitimate public institution" (Marsh, 2005, p. 545) in 1988 (Marsh, 2005). In 1990,
the "law on Freedom of Conscience and Religious Belief" (Marsh, 2005, p. 545) was passed. The law was a bit more than government officials could deal with, though, and as
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