The eighth in a series on the spiritual revolution behind the fall of communism thirty years ago: Exactly when the first crosses appeared on the Kryžių Kalnas–or the Hill of Crosses–in northern Lithuania, no-one really knows. Not far from the…
The seventh in a series on the spiritual revolution behind the fall of communism thirty years ago: Two years after Pope John Paul II had celebrated mass with hundreds of thousands of his fellow Poles on Victory Square in Warsaw,…
The sixth in a series on the spiritual revolution behind the fall of communism thirty years ago: Perhaps the greatest, most unexpected event of the 20th century was the non-violent fall of the Soviet Empire. How did that happen? Mikhail…
The fifth in a series on the spiritual revolution behind the fall of communism thirty years ago: Over the last six weeks of 1989, the Velvet Revolution in what was then Czechoslovakia saw the non-violent transition of power from one-party…
The third in a series on the spiritual revolution behind the fall of communism thirty years ago: Long before the events of the Pan-European Picnic and the Baltic Way, and nearly two decades before the names of Gorbachev, Reagan and Thatcher appeared in global…