Christian_Peace_Conference

Christian Peace Conference

Christian Peace Conference

International organization founded by Josef Hromádka

The Christian Peace Conference (Czech: Křesťanská mírová konference) was an international organization based in Prague and founded in 1958 by Josef Hromádka, a pastor who had spent the war years in the United States, moving back to Czechoslovakia when the war ended and Heinrich Vogel, an evangelical theologian.[1] Hromádka was a member of the Bureau of the World Peace Council.[2] He was not a Marxist, but the Christian Peace Conference often endorsed positions taken by Eastern bloc governments.[3] It has been alleged to have received $210,000 from Soviet sources.[4]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Bekanntgabe von Verleihungen des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In: Bundesanzeiger. Jg. 25, Nr. 103, 5. Juni 1973
  2. [2]
    Roberts, E.T., Communist Hold On "Christian" Peace Movement Archived 2012-06-01 at the Wayback Machine, 1964
  3. [3]
    Ramet, S.P., Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia, Duke University Press
  4. [4]
    Richard Felix Staar, Foreign policies of the Soviet Union, Hoover Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8179-9102-6, pp.79-88

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