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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s Irish childhood friend: “Christians of Belarus are responding in faith, hope, and love, to the need of the Belarusian people for freedom”
David Deane, Catholic theologian of Irish origin, associate professor at the Atlantic School of Theology (Halifax, Canada) gives an interview to the “Christian Vision” group of the Coordination Council. He talks about his encounter with Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, shares his thoughts on the movement for democracy in Belarus and women’s political activism, and also explains why […]
The Church in Belarusian Protest: an interview about transnational solidarity and transformative potential
On 26 August 2020 riot police trapped protestors and journalists in the Red Church on Independence Square in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. Archbishop Kondrusiewicz of the Catholic Church in Belarus explicitly condemned these actions and called for an official investigation. It then became clear that both the Catholic and the Orthodox Church are no […]
U. S. Embassy in Minsk supports the New Life Church
Chargé d’Affaires Jeffrey Giauque met today with the Full Gospel New Life Church after authorities evicted the community from its place of worship and barred it from returning to the building. He shared the United States’ concern over the eviction and the authorities’ demands that the community pay tax arrears – which religious groups are […]
Evangelical believer Sergiy Melianets is going to appeal to the Supreme Court and calls for God’s Court and Judgment as well.
The Minsk regional court refused to satisfy the complaint of the evangelical believer Sergiy Melyanets on the Minsk district court’s decision. Judge Irina Maiko agreed with her colleague Viktor Shevtsov, district court judge, who equated the White/Red/White blinds on the windows of Melyanets’ bedroom with an individual piquet and imposed a fine of 30 base […]
The Navalny Protests and Orthodoxy’s A-Political Theology
At the end of January, what were perhaps the largest protest rallies in the last ten years took place across Russia. The protests were sparked by the arrest of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who had returned to his homeland after medical treatment in Germany. Back in August 2020, Russian special services had tried to poison […]
У міжнародны дзень салідарнасьці з Беларусьсю сьпевакі госпел выканалі гімн “Магутны Божа” ў ангельскім перакладзе (BLR / ENG)
#standwithbelarus Напачатку лютага сьпевакі госпел з 24 краін (Аргентына, Аўстрыя, Беларусь, Бельгія, Балгарыя, Канада, Чэхія, Данія, Фінляндыя, Францыя, Нямеччына, Ірландыя, Італія, Японія, Кенія, Нідэрланды, Нарвегія, Расія, Сербія, Іспанія, Швецыя, Туніс, ЗША, Велікабрытанія) сустрэліся анлайн, каб вывучыць песьню па-беларуску. У выніку атрымалася госпел-версія гімна “Магутны Божа”, знак падтрымкі для беларусаў ад сяброў па ўсім сьвеце. *** […]
George Weigel. The Holy See and Thug Regimes
The list of grave issues that must be addressed during a future papal interregnum, and by the cardinal-electors in a conclave, continues to grow. The finances of the Holy See are arguably in worse shape than at any time since the papal interregnum of 1922; then, money had to be borrowed to pay for the […]
At Mass, Minsk archbishop hands over archdiocese to administrator
Belarus’s Catholic archbishop pledged to remain active in national life after handing over administration of the Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev to a temporary successor. In a Mass at the Minsk cathedral Jan. 24, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz handed over the archdiocese to Bishop Kazimierz Wielikosielc, an auxiliary bishop of Pinsk who will serve as apostolic administrator of […]
