History
20th Century
Persecutions of the
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Anti-Catholicism
Historical persecution of Christians
Vatican and Eastern Europe 1846-1958
Catholic Church persecutions 1939-1958
Eradication of Church under Stalinism
Eastern Catholic persecutions
Between world wars: "Terrible Triangle"
Conspiracy of Silence under Nazism
Anti-Christian sentiment
Mexico
Cristero War · Iniquis Afflictisque
Acerba Animi · Saints · José Sánchez del Río
Persecution in Mexico · Miguel Pro
Spain
Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War
Red Terror (Spain) · Dilectissima Nobis
Martyrs of Turon
Martyrs of Daimiel
Bartolome Blanco Marquez
Innocencio of Mary Immaculate
233 Spanish Martyrs
498 Spanish Martyrs
The Netherlands
Titus Brandsma
Germany
Mit brennender Sorge · Alfred Delp
Alois Grimm · Rupert Mayer
Bernhard Lichtenberg · Max Josef Metzger
Karl Leisner · Maximilian Kolbe
Erich Klausener
China
Persecution in China · Ad Sinarum Gentem
Cupimus Imprimis · Ad Apostolorum Principis
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei · Beda Chang
Dominic Tang
Vietnam
François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận
Poland
Polish anti-religious campaign (1945–1990)
Stefan Wyszyński
108 Blessed Polish Martyrs · Policies
Poloniae Annalibus · Gloriosam Reginam
Invicti Athletae · Jerzy Popiełuszko
Eastern Europe
József Mindszenty · Eugene Bossilkov
Severian Baranyk · Josef Beran
Zynoviy Kovalyk · Aloysius Stepinac
Meminisse Juvat · Anni Sacri
Sára Salkaházi · Walter Ciszek
Pietro Leoni · Theodore Romzha
Nicaragua
Miguel Obando y Bravo
El Salvador
Maura Clarke · Ignacio Ellacuría
Ita Ford · Rutilio Grande
Dorothy Kazel · Ignacio Martín-Baró
Segundo Montes · Óscar Romero
Jean Donovan
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During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, and especially in the early months of the conflict, individual clergymen were executed while entire religious communities were persecuted, leading to a death toll of 13 bishops, 4,172 diocesan priests and seminarists, 2,364 monks and friars and 283 nuns, for a total of 6,832 clerical victims, as part of what is referred to as Spain's Red Terror.