Slonim police pay interest to people who attended the Day of Nematsevich' memory with white-red-white flags
On 8 May the day of
commemoration of the martyr feat of the Apostolic Greek-Catholic Exarch of
Belarus Anton Nemantsevich and his parish on the territory of Palesse and Hrodna
region. The secretary of the Congregation on affairs of Eastern Churches,
archbishop Kiryl Vasil took part in the commemorative prayer.
Solemn assemblies were held in the Albiartsin suburb of Sloni, in the Church of
the Peace Queen, and also in the center of the city, in St. Andrew's church and
gathered several hundreds of believers. Some of them came to the assemblies
with white-red-white flags. However, nobody expelled or warned them. Only after
the end of the events officers of the Slonim District Police Department started
asking who held the flags, and were answered that these believers came to pray
for Anton Nemantsevich from other cities.
