PRAGUE -- Cardinal Dominik Duka, a former Archbishop of Prague who was persecuted by the communist regime and later helped ...
In the early hours of an August day in 1968, I was awakened by the continuous thunder of heavy planes flying low overhead – we lived relatively close to Prague’s largest airport. It was about 3:00 a.m ...
Appointed Bishop of Hradec Králové in 1998 and Archbishop of Prague in 2010, Duka became a cardinal two years later. He played a key role in negotiating church restitution with the Czech state and was ...
On Saint Wenceslas Day, 1968, a group of young people in Prague attempted a quiet but short-lived demonstration in spite of the Soviet presence. The tenth-century legend was the one they passed around ...
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This year, NPR is looking at the events of 1968 that continue to shape our world. Fifty years ago today, Czechoslovakia's parliament under duress approved a treaty sanctioning the occupation of the ...
Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian troops to separatist areas of Eastern Ukraine as euphemistic “peacekeepers,” with somewhere between 150,000 and 190,000 Russian troops ranged along the ...
GOOD MORNNG: Robert Vaughn, emotionally wrung out after standing vigil Friday with Ted Kennedy at the casket of his friend Robert F.K., departed N.Y. yesterday for Prague, to start “Bridge at Remagen.