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On the Humanitarian Crisis in Belarus. Address of the Christian Vision Working Group to His Excellency Archbishop Paul Richard Gallaher, Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See Secretariat of State
[simple-author-box] To His Excellency Archbishop Paul Richard GallaherSecretary for Relations with States of the Holy See Secretariat of State СС: To His Excellency Archbishop Ante JozićApostolic Nuncio in Belarus 9 November 2021 Your Excellency, The Christian Vision Working Group of the Coordination Council of Belarus would like to express its deep concern about the situation […]
Letter of Solidarity from the World Community of Reformed Churches in Support of the Political Prisoner Uladzimir Matskevich
Hannover, 28th October 2021 Dear Natallia Vasilevich, Dear Brothers, Sisters, and Partners in the Communion of Christ, Greetings from the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Collegial General Secretariat in Hannover. On behalf of the Collegial General Secretariat, we wish to first and foremost state that we identify with you and extend our support […]
Statement of the Christian Vision Group of the Coordination Council Regarding the Violation of the Right to Freedom of Religion of Political Prisoner Mikita Yemialyianau
25 October 2021 On 11 October 2021, a Roman Catholic believer and political prisoner, Mikita Yemialyianau, went on a hunger strike in protest against the prohibition of being visited by a priest. Yemialyianau has been imprisoned since 20 October 2019. His right to freedom of religion or belief is systematically restricted in Mahilioŭ prison no. […]
«The state cannot interfere in church affairs»: position of the Sviatlana Tikhanovskaya’s Office
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion is one of the fundamental human rights. It applies equally to followers of religious or to non-religious beliefs and includes everyone’s freedom individually, in community with others, publicly and privately, to manifest a religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching, as it is stated in the International […]
Statement of the Christian Vision Group of the Coordination Council Regarding the Criminal Prosecution of the Christian Reformed Thinker, Uladzimir Matskevich
10 October 2021 For over two months, a philosopher, methodologist, founder of the Flying University and Christian Reformed believer, Uladzimir Matskevich, has been kept in the detention centre no. 1 in Minsk. He and his colleagues — Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya, Aksana Shelest and Ulad Vialichka — were detained on 4 August 2021 after police searches. Since […]
Belarusian Political Prisoners’ Wives and Mothers Wrote A Letter to Pope Francis
His Holiness Pope Francis Your Holiness! Relatives of political prisoners in Belarus, who have united in the civil initiative «Vyzvalenne (‘Liberation’)2020», are appealing to you.We were forced to turn to you by the situation in our beloved Belarus, the monstrous violence and injustice that is happening in relation to the citizens of our country, to […]
Statement of the Christian Vision group of the Coordination Council on State Media Incitement to Religious Discrimination Against Catholic Clergy
September 7, 2021 In the issue of September 7, 2021, the newspaper of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee “Minskaja Praŭda” (with a print run of 13,589 copies) published a cartoon on the front page by Anton Ostrovsky. The cartoon depicts the figures of four priests, with elements of clothing and prayer gestures peculiar to the […]
Letter from Ihar Losik to Pope Francis
Your Holiness, My name is Ihar Losik. I work for the Belarusian programmes of Radio Liberty/Free Europe. I am a Catholic, the father of a beautiful little girl Paŭlina. Sadly, she has been growing without her dad for more than a year. I have not seen my daughter for more than a year either. I […]
Forum 18. BELARUS: Administrative, criminal charges for evicted Church’s outdoor worship?
At a meeting in Parliament and two letters, officials warned New Life Pentecostal Church that continuing to meet for worship in the car park of their seized church in Minsk could lead to administrative or criminal prosecution (maximum punishment four years’ imprisonment). The Church vows to continue its worship. «The authorities may initiate criminal charges […]
