Belarus

While the Soviet Union is no more, Rakhuba says Belarus is not an easy place to be a Christian. He says this celebration was marred by interference. "When we finished our dedication service, police called the pastor and were asking all kinds of questions -- 'Who was there? Why did you do this? We did not [permit] you to do this' -- although we didn't do anything wrong." 

For more than two years, Svetlana Zhuk has been struggling to find out the burial place of her son Andrei Zhuk, who was executed in March 2010. She has appealed to international human rights organisations, complaining that she had been "denied the possibility to bury my son in accordance with the demands of Orthodox Christianity."

Born into an ethnic Polish family in a village in eastern Belarus in 1946, the archbishop (Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz) grew up in a war-torn country with a long history of religious persecution: Clergy were slaughtered, worshippers were forced to convert, and many churches were destroyed.

The government of Belarus fines pastor Aleksei Abramovich for conduction worship service at his home. The pastor said, "We don't interfere with state policy. Our worship meetings are purely religious. It's not a crime if believers worship in my house."

Pavel Sieviarynets and Vital Rymasheuski have been imprisoned in a Belarusian Prison for expressing their "views of Christianity". Rymasheuski was sentenced to two years in prison, Sieviarynets was issued three years of hard labor.

Priests denied visit to inmates. Man sentenced two years for failing to register to worship God

Authorities in Belarus raided Baptist congregations while members were holding worship services. A government official said that if worship services are held in unregistered churches, then "the authorities have the right to interrupt services."

“Officials in the Belarusian capital have refused to allow a derelict historic Pomore Old Believer church to be transferred from a remote northern village where no local Old Believers remain to serve the community in Minsk,” Forum 18 News Service reports.

A pastor in Belarus has been fined for alleged unsanitary conditions for food served to children at a summer Bible school. The pastor denies the government allegation.