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\"\"<\/a>Here\u2019s an item which has been making the newspapers<\/a> in Sibiu, Romania, as well as various<\/a> Romanian<\/a> blogs<\/a>. The CNSAS<\/a> (the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives) has revealed that Baptist pastor Beniamin Popl\u0103cean collaborated with the secret police during the decade prior to the fall of Communism in that country. For Baptists in Sibiu this has long been a subject for suspicion and speculation.<\/p>\n

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This December it will be twenty years since the revolution that ended the Communist era in that country. And yet there are still many issues and challenges that are the legacy of that era which have yet to be fully addressed, in particular when it comes to the various Christian denominations that were the focus of particular efforts by the Communists to both persecute and infiltrate. <\/div>\n

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It was only in the period after the revolution of 1989 that I visited, and later lived for some years, in Romania. And I have students in my classes who were not even born yet when those events unfolded. <\/div>\n

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I don\u2019t really have any commentary to offer. Just links to the news and snippets of press releases, as I look on from afar at what\u2019s transpiring.<\/div>\n
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