BelarusBelarus Punishes Pastor For Worship Service At His HouseThursday, October 20th, 2011The 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." Christian Persecution a ‘Worldwide Emergency’Thursday, June 23rd, 2011"The number of Christians who are killed within 100 years, in the 20th century, [it] is more than the number of Christians who were killed in the centuries preceding the 20th century." ADF Requests Immediate Release of Imprisoned Belarus Christian LeadersSaturday, May 28th, 2011Pavel 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. Belarus:Christian Threatened Two Years Imprisonment For Not Registering to WorshipTuesday, May 24th, 2011Priests denied visit to inmates. Man sentenced two years for failing to register to worship God Authorities in Belarus Defend Raids on ChurchesSaturday, April 2nd, 2011Authorities 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." Belarus: Why can’t derelict church be relocated for worship?Wednesday, February 16th, 2011“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. Belarus: Pastor Fined, Church Bank FrozenThursday, November 11th, 2010A 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. Pastor fined 3 times in BelarusFriday, August 13th, 2010"Appropriate permission is needed" cites government as reason Belarus: Administrative Code changes, but fines continueFriday, April 9th, 2010"Despite the removal in February of punishments from the Administrative Violations Code for unregistered religious activity, Pastor Yuri Petrevich, who leads a Protestant church in Grodno [Hrodna] in western Belarus, was fined on 10 March for this abolished "offence", Forum 18 News Service has learnt." EU Ambassadors Discuss Belarus Threats To Close MegachurchSaturday, August 29th, 2009The threat to close the Church is another clear indication of violation of freedom of religion by officials in Belarus. Church Fined for Holding Prayer Service in Their Registered BuildingFriday, July 17th, 2009A registered Protestant congregation in western Belarus has been fined for activity which officials claim was "not according to its statute." Foreign Pastor Banned from Preaching, Church Threatened with ClosureThursday, July 16th, 2009Belarus has warned a church in the capital Minsk that it could be closed after a foreign pastor preached at a worship service. Religious Freedom Survey, June 2009Friday, June 12th, 2009Survey of Belarusian policies on religious freedom finds nothing has changed. Largest Fine Yet for Unregistered Religious ActivityThursday, June 11th, 2009A court in the eastern town of Osipovichi fined local Baptist Nikolai Poleshchuk the equivalent of almost three months' average salary in the town and another Baptist received a warning for running a Christian street library. Belarus church told to vacate by MondayFriday, May 29th, 2009This church has been the object of continued harassment, please pray for their latest struggle. Ideology official targets rehabilitation programmeTuesday, March 31st, 2009A Belarusian Christian rehabilitation programme for alcoholics and drug addicts run by a registered social organisation, Cliff House, has been targeted by an ideology official. Supreme Court Upholds Registration Requirements for ChurchesThursday, March 26th, 2009Belarus' Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the state's requirement that worship must be registered to be legal. Danes deported for praying in churchThursday, February 12th, 2009Two Danish visitors to Belarus were detained by police and are being deported as they expressed "ideas of a religious nature", in the words of the deportation order. Charismatic church’s fight pushed back to square oneTuesday, January 27th, 2009Members of Minsk's charismatic New Life Church have vowed to fight on to retain their building after the Higher Economic Court threw out their appeal against moves to seize it. Official Refuses to Give Reason for Expulsion of Church LeadersThursday, January 8th, 2009"The views of the parishioners are nothing to us – he was invited by the Archdiocese, not by the parishioners." |
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