Belarus News News Belarus » Religion: Religious minorities facing attacks in Belarus, charity says
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Religious freedom will “rapidly deteriorate” in Belarus as a law passed a year ago gives the government broad discretion to use formal legal grounds to persecute “disloyal ...
News Belarus » Religion: Belarus: Criminal Cases Against Exiled Religious Freedom Defenders – Analysis
Police investigators have launched at least two criminal cases in 2026 against religious freedom defenders who live outside Belarus. Police launched criminal cases in January against Protestant ...
News Belarus » Religion: Belarus to Impose Strict Curbs on Religion
MOSCOW, Oct. 2 -- Belarus moved today toward imposing harsh new restrictions on religious activity by minority faiths, adopting what human rights activists called the most suffocating religion law in ...
News Belarus » Religion: Belarus: Regime Official Denies Permission For 3 More Catholic Priests To Remain – Analysis
The Belarus regime’s senior religious affairs official, the Plenipotentiary for Religious and Ethnic Affairs in Minsk, Aleksandr Rumak, has refused permission for three more Polish Catholic priests to ...
News Belarus » Religion: Catholic priests face pressures under Belarus' new religious law
Clergy in Belarus are deleting their social media profiles to avoid arrest, according to church sources, as local parishes face pressure under a new religious law. "With church communities required to ...
News Belarus » Religion: Spiritual Thaw In Belarus? A Protestant Prayer Meeting In Minsk Featuring Franklin Graham
When Belarus’s tiny, embattled community of Evangelicals and Protestant Christians first heard about the idea of holding a mass prayer service in the capital, Minsk, they were incredulous. The idea ...