Word: yakunin
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Until recently, the battalions of Marxism seemed to have the upper hand over the soldiers of the Cross. In the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Lenin had pledged toleration but delivered terror. "Russia turned crimson with the blood of martyrs," says Father Gleb Yakunin, Russian Orthodoxy's bravest agitator for religious freedom. In the Bolsheviks' first five years in power, 28 bishops and 1,200 priests were cut down by the red sickle. Stalin greatly accelerated the terror, and by the end of Khrushchev's rule, liquidations of clergy reached an estimated 50,000. After World...
...Graham--was the woman doing "something wrong" to let people know Soviet persecution of religions refusing to be state-controlled? Dr. Graham says he saw no evidence of religious repression during his tour--did he have time in his "guided" tour to visit Father Dubko and Father Yakunin, who are in Moscow's Lefortovo prison because of their evangelistic work...
Religious dissidents have also suf fered. So far this year, 45 Evangelical Baptists have been arrested, including three prominent pastors. The Christian Committee for the Defense of Believers in the U.S.S.R. has been slated for extinction by the KGB. The committee's founder, the Rev. Gleb Yakunin, an Orthodox priest, was sentenced to five years in a labor camp plus five years of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." On television last June, the widely revered Father Dmitri Dudko confessed to having slandered the Soviet system. The priest reportedly yielded to threats that all his parishioners would...
...being harassed or undergoing forced "psychiatric" treatment. In January authorities arrested Father Dmitri Dudko, a Moscow priest whose fiery sermons attacked official atheism. In what dissidents consider a pre-Olympics "cleanup," many other prominent Orthodox believers were rounded up in late 1979 and early 1980. Among them: Father Gleb Yakunin, an Orthodox priest who appealed to the regime and the World Council of Churches for religious liberty and founded the Christian Committee for the Defense of Believers' Rights...