"Russia will be converted..."

...was a central part of the mysterious message given to children at Fatima in Portugal in 1917, the year that an atheistic regime seized power in Russia in the wake of war.  For long years, it didn't seem likely that this would happen - following a further war, Russia's power and domination over its neighbours increased and massive efforts were made to impose atheism on them, too - Poland, Hungary...

Then in 1978 a Polish Pope was elected, who made a consecration of the world to Mary on the Feast of the Assumption in 1984...and the atheistic regimes crumbled,  extraordinary events began to unfold...and now, month after month, news such as this...