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Persecution of the Catholic Church, Clergy and Laity in Belarus
In the course of the political crisis in Belarus, the Catholic Church, its communities, clergy and faithful — both Roman Catholics and Greek Catholics — faced persecutions on account of their religious and civil activities: martyria — witnessing the truth of Christ’s teaching; diakonia — offering care to the persecuted; leitourgia — praying and worshipping. […]
Belarusian Churches and Migration: 2010-2020. Chechen refugees in Brest: A Local Migration Crisis in 2016-2017
Belarus has never been an attractive country to migrants, neither as a final destination (the number of immigrants does not exceed 30,000 per year[1]), nor as a transit country. There have been three exceptions. 1. Chinese migrants, mainly students and guest workers on temporary assignments for the projects following “tide loan” agreements between Belarus and China. The agreements […]
Statement of the Christian Vision Working Group of the Coordination Council on the Iniquitous Sentence of Volha Zalatar
An unfair and politically motivated sentence was passed to Volha Zalatar, a practising Catholic believer, mother of five young children and a member of the volunteer movement
Volha Zalatar’s Final Speech in Court
Volha Zalatar, a mother of five children and a political prisoner, made her final speech in court. The prosecutor requested for Zalatar five years in prison. She is accused under three articles of the Criminal Code, including the creation of an extremist group in a form of a Telegram chat. Zalatar will be sentenced on […]
Religious Freedom in Belarus in 2021
November 2021 Overview Since August 2020, the Eastern European nation of Belarus has witnessed profound social and political upheaval amidst the government’s authoritarian crackdown that has gutted civil society with devastating consequences for human rights, including religious freedom. The nation of roughly 9.4 million citizens declared independence from the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991, […]
«From the borderland Jesus’ voice reaches us»
[simple-author-box] Joint Appeal of the Protestant Church in Germany and the Working Group «Christian Vision» of the Coordinating Council of Belarus Since summer 2021 the regime of Aliaksandar Lukashenka in Belarus adopted a strategy to put pressure on the European Union through instrumentalization of people from conflict zones to direct them on the borders of […]
Statement of the Christian Vision Working Group of the Coordination Council of Belarus on the Humanitarian Crisis: Who Is My Neighbor?
16 November 2021 The Christian Vision Working Group of the Coordination Council of Belarus is deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis taking place in Belarus on account of the mass gathering of foreign citizens, including those from conflict zones, on the Belarusian-Polish border organised by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko; and the consequences it may […]
Forum 18. BELARUS: «We, political prisoners, were not allowed to attend clubs, the church ..»
12 November 2021Olga Glace, Forum 18 Prison officials finally allowed Catholic political prisoner Mikita Yemialyianau a pastoral visit on 3 November. He had just ended a three-week hunger strike in protest at the denial of a clergy visit since his transfer to Mogilev prison in 2020. Prison officials prevented him from renewing a subscription to […]
BURM Network gets an update on the current situation in Belarus
Speaker says what’s happening in Belarus is happening around the world by Ellen Smith and Kathy Melvin | Special to Presbyterian News Service The actual cross and cornflowers that became the symbol for Christian Vision, part of the Coordination Council of the Belarusian Democratic Movement. (Contributed photo) LOUISVILLE — Belarus was a key focus of […]
