News on the topic: freedom of conscience
10.06.2015 Riot policemen stop divine service in Homieĺ, believers are summoned to police station
Believers of the church "Praabražennie" (“Transfiguration”) in Homieĺ are summoned to the police department for questioning and getting official charges. Neither the believers nor the pastor of the church, Siarhei Mikalayenka, know about the reasons for such actions of the police.
17.02.2015 Founder of homeless shelter threatened with criminal case
Believer Aliaksei Shchadrou, the founder of shelter for homeless, is threatened with criminal case. The press service of the BCD told charter97.org about it.
15.01.2015 Members of Hare Krishna community are charged with use of obscene language
Several days ago, Polatsk police detained two members of Hare Krishna community and charged them under Art. 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, “disorderly conduct".
08.01.2015 Minsk believers not allowed to church for Orthodox Christmas mass
As reported by a coordinator of the organizing committee of the Belarusian Christian Democracy Valeryia Charamortsava, in the morning of January 7, the police refused to let Orthodox believers in the St. Spirit Cathedral.
16.07.2014 Pope Francis to receive founder of shelter Aliaksei Shchadrou
Aliaksei Shchadrou, founder of a homeless shelter in the village of Aliaksandrauka, Shchuchyn district, who was persecuted by the authorities, is expected to meet with Pope Francis.
16.04.2014 Two catholic priests expelled from Belarus
The Belarusian authorities didn't give permission for two foreign priests to serve in Belarusian Roman Catholic churches.
05.12.2013 Priest Lazar released from KGB jail
But the criminal case against him hasn't been dropped.
13.09.2013 Vital Rymasheuski: “By persecuting priest Lazar the authorities want to intimidate the church”
Priest Uladzislau Lazar has been arrested by the KGB and is in the KGB remand prison in Minsk. He is accused of complicity in the state treason by alleged passing money and valuables to a person, who is charged with espionage for a foreign country. What attitude should be paid to the criminal prosecution of priest Lazar in Belarus?
13.09.2013 Conference of Catholic bishops of Belarus discusses criminal prosecution of priest Lazar
As stated at the website catholic.by, on 12 September the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Belarus received information from the state organs about the detention of priest Uladzislau Lazar.
05.09.2013 Volunteers collect donations in support of the relatives of priest Lazar
According to the coordinator of the civil initiative “For Liberty” (“Za Voliu”) Hanna Shaputska, the fundraising is necessary first of all to pay for the lawyer and the parcels to the remand prison.
13.08.2013 Belarusian Christian Democracy applies to the prosecutor's office on priest Lazar's case
The co-chairman of the organizing committee of the party "Belarusian Christian Democracy" Vital Rymashevski and its executive secretary Dzianis Sadouski filed to the Office of the Prosecutor General a collective appeal in the case of the Catholic priest of the parish of the Holy Spirit in Barysau, Uladzislau Lazar.
22.05.2013 Belarusian laws, policies restrict religious freedom, US report says
The Belarusian constitution guarantees religious freedom, but other laws and policies restrict it, according to the International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 released by the US Department of State.
16.01.2013 Minsk authorities refuse to talk with representatives of "New Life"
The negotiations about a meeting at the Minsk City Executive Committee have lasted since the end of November when the church lawyer Siarhei Lukanin talked about it with the deputy head of the reception department.
28.11.2012 “New Life” church is being evicted
The court ruling of the Supreme Economical Court was received by the believers on 27 November. According to it they must vacate the building by 5 November.
09.02.2012 List of detainees of Litvins’ club
Late in the evening of 8 February 2012 all 32 people detained in the Protestant Church “Ian the Baptist” were released from the Maskouski District Police Department of Minsk. Among them there were three under-aged – Vitaut Siuchyk and his schoolmates Kasia and Maryna.
