14 September 2020, The Tablet

An Archbishop in exile, a country in turmoil – Jonathan Luxmoore on Belarus


An Archbishop in exile, a country in turmoil – Jonathan Luxmoore on Belarus

Riot police a detain demonstrator during a protest by opposition supporters in Minsk yesterday.
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Since the presidential election results in August, there have been mass protests. The Catholic Metropolitan, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, is effectively in exile, having been refused re-entry to Belarus from Poland. Jonathan Luxmoore looks at the politics behind the turmoil, and explains why the Catholic Church is being targeted.

 

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