Dmitry Malets News Today

OSV News) -- A Catholic parish priest accused of offending state authorities in Belarus said he understood the hardships facing prisoners of conscience after just four days in jail. I wouldnt wish this on anyone -- not a single hour in such a place, said Father Andrej Kulik, rector of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish at Miory. Many of my colleagues have sat in prison for various concocted reasons in recent decades, not just here in Belarus, and it made no difference that I

Regime officials routinely intimidated bishops with talk of police surveillance since reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko