The Red Church is taken from them and the school at the Catholic center is closed.

Why is it done and what might be the consequences?

Briefly:

  • The loyalty of Belarusian Catholics to the existing regime has always been under suspicion.

  • The Catholic Church is the religion of the West.

    And the collective West today is an existential enemy for the authorities of Belarus and Russia.

  • The authorities believe that Poland, which has been declared the main enemy of Belarus, has a great influence on Belarusian Catholics.

  • The community that gathered around this temple was, in a certain sense, the center of Belarushchyna.

    And the cocktail of Catholicism and Belarus looked dangerous for the authorities.

SEE ALSO: Attack on the Catholic Church.

The authorities take the Red Church from the Catholics, closed the school in the Christian Center

After the mysterious fire in the Minsk Red Church on the night of September 26, today it turned out that the church is being taken away from the Catholics.

The authorities also closed the school of the Christian Social Center "Mission of the Good Samaritan" in Minsk.

There is an obvious political background to these repressive actions.

Loyalty of Catholics to the existing regime was always under suspicion.

Distrust of them especially increased with the beginning of protests in 2020.

The head of the Belarusian Catholic Church, Metropolitan Tadevush Kondrusevich, criticized the violence perpetrated by the authorities.

And he was not allowed to return to his homeland from abroad for almost 4 months.

Then several priests were persecuted.

SEE ALSO: The authorities closed the school in the Catholic Christian Social Center in Minsk

Distrust of Catholics is based on several factors.

First of all, the Catholic Church is the religion of the West.

And the collective West today is an existential enemy for the authorities of Belarus and Russia.

The state media actively vilify all Western values.

The authorities must be afraid that these values ​​can penetrate into Belarus.

That is why they closed the school at the Catholic center.

The ideology of the "Russian world", which is gradually becoming dominant, almost official in Belarus, inevitably had to come into conflict with Catholicism.

The second factor is the most important.

The authorities believe that Poland has a great influence on Belarusian Catholics.

Among the poorly educated public, Catholicism is generally considered the "Polish faith".

And Poland has been declared the main enemy of Belarus.

The anti-Polish campaign is initiated by Lukashenka himself.

Endless stories about the fact that Poland wants to seize western Belarus and is preparing for war are constantly heard from his mouth.

The establishment of the new holiday of National Unity Day on September 17 has an obvious anti-Polish bias.

It must be no coincidence that the news appeared today that Andrzej Pachobut, a well-known journalist and one of the leaders of the Union of Poles of Belarus, was put on the list of terrorists.

Persecution of "Polish card" owners began.

Therefore, sooner or later, the struggle with Poland in one way or another had to spread to the Catholics.

SEE ALSO: Jealousy and revenge of a polenophobe.

Why does Lukashenko dislike Poland and Poles so much

And another important point.

The priest-parson of the Red Church, Wladyslaw Zavalniuk, is known as an active popularizer of the Belarusian language in church life.

The community that gathered around this temple was, in a certain sense, the center of Belarushchyna.

And with this appearance, the authorities, who have drowned in the "Russian world", are waging a war of extermination.

Today, Belarus is a big sedition in Belarus.

And the cocktail of Catholicism and Belarus looked dangerous for the authorities.

And the Red Church is in the very center of the capital.

The authorities could not tolerate such a source of disloyalty for a long time.

In general, everything alive, independent and not under the control of the government - from private educational institutions to religious communities - is collapsing in the country.

Such is the political time in Belarus today.

The opinions expressed in the blogs represent the views of the authors themselves and do not necessarily reflect the position of the editors.

  • Valer Karbalevich

    He was born in 1955.

    Graduated from the history faculty of BSU, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor.

    Radio Svaboda political commentator.



    karbalevich@gmail.com

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