The impact of persecution upon the Igreja Evangelica Congregacional in Angola 1950–1974

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Augusto, Asaf:
The impact of persecution upon the Igreja Evangelica Congregacional in Angola 1950–1974.
In: International Journal for Religious Freedom. Bd. 1 (2008) Heft 1 . - S. 81-84.
ISSN 2070-5484

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Abstract

My interest in the research stems from personal experience of a warring Angola during the 1980’s. Growing up in Angola, as anIgreja Evangelica Congregacional in Angola (IECA) pastor’s son, I knew fear, social exclusion, and religious alienation. Much of the persecution which the IECA faced during this period of history can be ascribed to the impact of Marxism-Leninism, the political ideology adopted by the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) after independence in 1975.