A vast security network spied on the activities of clergy, and priests were frequently denounced, arrested, or sent to concentration camps – many to the dedicated clergy barracks at Dachau.
"My position," David says, "is that clergy involved in sexual activity with parishioners is inherently abusive," because the relationship is one of intimate trust and unequal power.
In that speech he set himself against both the Quebec politicians who attempted to form a Catholic party and the extremist elements in his own group who sought to exclude the clergy from all political activity.
In their evangelical activities the Protestant clergy were better organized than their Catholic counterparts; in particular they used schools to propagate their faith.
"The I.R.S. goes, and it's scouring the Internet looking for trouble," said Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel for a conservative Christian group called the Alliance Defense Fund, which defends clergy members accused of partisan activities.
"There may be some winners in the shrinking religious market, but it seems likely that most religious organisations will be struggling to maintain their institutions and activities as the number of active clergy and members continues to decline".
The official, Lobsang Gyaincain, a member of the standing committee of the regional Communist Party, said the clergy must not take part in activities aimed at "splitting the motherland".
But at past events many countries have not included chaplains in their own delegations, assuming that the host country would invite foreign clergy.China is uneasy about religious activities at the games.
In the aftermath of this violence, the governors of 19 northern states set up a committee to regulate the activities of Muslim and Christian clergy.
Moreover, Mr. Konaté said, his American peers in the Muslim clergy, aware of the agency's surveillance activities during the 60's, have warned him to be wary of the F.B.I.
