Cardinal Ján Korec, who was once the youngest bishop in the world — and later the oldest — died 10 years ago and is ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday approved the beatification of 11 "martyr" priests killed by the Nazi or Communist regimes in Europe in ...

Joseph Hasil, born in 1924 in the Bohemia region of what was then Czechoslovakia, was a German conscript in Dresden during World War II and later part of an underground network that smuggled people ...

Against the odds, they all survived. The new Communist regime that took power in Czechoslovakia in 1948 looked promising at first for Klima and many others who had been persecuted. The performances ...

The first person to find the body lying in the stone courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry at 6:15 a.m. on March 10, 1948, was a janitor. Clothed in pajamas, the corpse was cold, lying face ...

In the early hours of March 10, 1948, the body of Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister was found beneath a window of the ministry’s palace in Prague. The official explanation was suicide. The public ...

Shortly before the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia, TIME-LIFE International publisher of our overseas editions, received the following urgent message from a subscription donor in Canada: “We entered ...