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List of Christian human rights non-governmental organisations

List of Christian human rights non-governmental organisations

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The following is a list of Christian human rights non-governmental organisations (or list of Christian human rights NGOs) that raise awareness about the persecution of Christians and advocates for them. It does not include political parties, or academic institutions.

St. Teodora de la Sihla Church in Central Chișinău was one of the churches in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic that was forcibly "converted into museums of atheism", under the doctrine of Marxist–Leninist atheism.[1]

International non-governmental organizations

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References

  1. Brezianu, Andrei (26 May 2010). The A to Z of Moldova. Scarecrow Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8108-7211-0. Communist Atheism. Official doctrine of the Soviet regime, also called "scientific atheism." It was aggressively applied to Moldova, immediately after the 1940 annexation, when churches were profaned, clergy assaulted, and signs and public symbols of religion were prohibited, and it was applied again throughout the subsequent decades of the Soviet regime, after 1944. ... The St. Theodora Church in downtown Chişinău was converted into the city's Museum of Scientific Atheism,
  2. Thames, H. Knox; Seiple, Chris; Rowe, Amy (2009). International Religious Freedom Advocacy: A Guide to Organizations, Law, and NGOs. Baylor University Press. ISBN 9781602581791. Examples of NGOs that aid victims of persecution include Voice of the Martyrs, International Christian Concern, Christian Solidarity International, Iranian Christians International, Christian Freedom International, and Physicians for Human Rights.

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