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Politics

Exiled nuns

November 12, 2014

In the early 1950s, the communist regime in Czechoslovakia removed hundreds of Roman Catholic nuns from their convents and sent them to the village of Bílá Voda. For decades they could only practice their religion in secret. Twenty-five years after the "velvet revolution," the village of Bílá Voda has decided to address the legacy of the past.

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