Christian Peace Conference

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

• List of anti-war organizations

References

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

Further reading

• Soviet Active Measures: The Christian Peace Conference. Foreign Affairs Note. Washington: U.S. Department of State. May 1985.