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1318:- quote: « Another peculiar place where the ideas of russo-centrism are created and propagated is a series of international scientific and practical conferences held under the supervision of Uladzimir Sacevič. Sacevič himself leads social activities in several directions. He is the chairman of the "Human Ecology” Committee under the Belarusian Social and Ecological Union, a member of the Coordinating Council of the Union of Struggle for People’s Sobriety, and at the same time acts as the organizer of the Rodnovery (Slavic Neo-Pagan) movement in Belarus. Following the conferences’ results, digests under a characteristic name “The Slavic Veche” are published (in total, four such digests had been published by 2009). Selection of materials in these digests is very eclectic. There, one can find manifestos of Rodnovers/Neopagans ». Institute of Political Studies Political Sphere, Vytautas Magnus University.
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Maladziechna and Lida. The faithful permanently attached to these came to about 3,000, while some 4,000 others lived outside the pastoral range of the parishes. Today there are 16 priests, and 9 seminarians. There is a small
Studite monastery at Polatsk. The parishes are organized into two deaneries, each headed by an archpriest. The Abbot of the Polatsk monastery serves as the dean of the eastern deanery. There is no eparch (bishop) for the Belarusian Greek Catholic Church. Archimandrite Sergius Gajek, MIC, is the Apostolic Visitator for the Greek-Catholic Church in Belarus. Worship is in the Belarusian language.
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of 1989 counted some 142,000 Jews, or 1.1 percent of the population, many of whom have since emigrated. Although boundaries of
Belarus changed from 1914 to 1922, a significant portion of the decrease was the result of the war. In late 1992, there were nearly seventy Jewish organizations active in Belarus, half of which were country-wide.
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bishop, were reorganized into five dioceses (covering 455 parishes) and the archdiocese of Minsk and
Mahilyow. In the early 1990s, figures for the Catholic population in Belarus ranged from 8 percent to 20 percent; one estimate identified 25 percent of the Catholics as ethnic Poles. The church had one seminary in Belarus.
1195:. Listing total population of Belarus with population by age and sex, marital status, education, nationality, language and livelihood ("Общая численность населения; численность населения по возрасту и полу, состоянию в браке, уровню образования, национальностям, языку, источникам средств к существованию")
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and the celebration in 1988 of the 1,000- year anniversary of
Christianity in Russia. In 1990 Belarus was designated an exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, creating the Belarusian Orthodox Church. In the early 1990s, 60 percent of the population identified themselves as Orthodox. The church had
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Church, a branch of which existed in
Belarus from 1596 to 1839 and had some three-quarters of the Belarusian population as members when it was abolished, is reputed to have used Belarusian in its liturgy and pastoral work. When the church was reestablished in Belarus in the early 1990s, its adherents
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Fledgling
Belarusian religious movements are having difficulties asserting themselves within these two major religious institutions because of the historical practice of preaching in Russian in the Orthodox churches and in Polish in the Catholic churches. Attempts to introduce the Belarusian language
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The first Jewish communities appeared in
Belarus at the end of the 14th century and continued to increase until the genocide of World War II. Mainly urban residents, the country's nearly 1.3 million Jews in 1914 accounted for 50 to 60 percent of the population in cities and towns. The Soviet census
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survey based on a sample of 1000 people found that 94% of them declared to be
Christians, 3% to be irreligious—a category which includes atheists, agnostics and those who described their religion as "nothing in particular", while 3% belonged to other faiths. The Christians were divided between 73%
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were strongly influenced by the
Catholics' recognition of an outside authority, the pope, as head of the church, as well as by the close historical ties of the church in Belarus with Poland. In 1989 the five official Catholic dioceses, which had existed since World War II and had been without a
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At the beginning of 2005, the
Belarusian Greek Catholic Church had 20 parishes, of which 13 had obtained state recognition. As of 2003, there have been two Belarusian Greek Catholic parishes in each of the following cities - Minsk, Polatsk and Vitsebsk; and only one in Brest, Hrodna, Mahiliou,
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In 1993 one Belarusian publication reported the numbers of religious communities as follows: 787 Orthodox, 305 Catholic, 170 Pentecostal, 141 Baptist, 26 Old Believer, 17 Seventh-Day Adventist, 9 Apostolic Christian, 8 Greek Catholic, 8 New Apostolic, 8 Muslim, 7 Jewish, and 15 other religious
777:, the activities of these communities were severely restricted. Many religious communities were destroyed and their leaders exiled or executed; the remaining communities were sometimes co-opted by the government for its own ends, as in the effort to instill patriotism during World War II.
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To a certain extent, the 1991 declaration of Belarus's independence and the 1990 law making Belarusian an official language of the republic have generated a new attitude toward the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Some religiously uncommitted young people have turned to the
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Before World War II, the number of Protestants in Belarus was quite low in comparison with other Christians, but they have shown growth since then. In 1917, there were 32 Protestant communities. In 1990, there were more than 350 Protestant communities in the country.
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The revival of religion in Belarus in the post-communist era brought about a revival of the old historical conflict between Orthodoxy and Catholicism. This religious complexity was compounded by the two denominations' links to institutions outside the republic. The
265:, who had close ties to the church in Poland. However, despite these ties, Archbishop Sviontak, who had been a prisoner in the Soviet camps and a pastor in Pinsk for many years, prohibited the display of Polish national symbols in Catholic churches in Belarus.
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advertised it as a "national" church. The modest growth of the Greek Catholic Church was accompanied by heated public debates of both a theological and a political character. Because the original allegiance of the Greek Catholic Church was clearly to the
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episcopate was created which received a lot of land from the Lithuanian dukes. By the mid-16th century Catholicism became strong in Lithuania and bordering with it north-west parts of Belarus, but the Orthodox church was still dominant in Belarus.
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into religious life, including the liturgy, also have not met wide success because of the cultural predominance of Russians and Poles in their respective churches, as well as the low usage of the Belarusian language in everyday life.
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is apparent in the fact that a proportion of Belarusians (especially in the east part of the country) are not religious. Moreover, other non-traditional and new religions have sprung up in the country after the end of the
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Eastern Orthodoxy is predominant in all over the country, while there is a strong Catholic minority in the western part of the country making up the 6.7% of the total population and the 32.3% of the population in the
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as a medium of communication with their flock. Overall, however, national activists have had little success in trying to generate new interest in the Greek Catholic Church.
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Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe: National and religious identities converge in a region once dominated by atheist regimes
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and continued to decline until the early 1980s because of government policies, it underwent a small revival with the onset of
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and the large sample could allow estimating the religious composition at the regional level.
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with Orthodox and Byzantine influences. The border between them was roughly marked by the
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had 2,466 religious communities, including: 1,650 Orthodox, 127 Catholic, 657 Jewish, 32
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In 2017 the religious composition of Belarus was estimated to be as follows by the
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in 1385 broke this monopoly and made Catholicism the religion of the ruling class.
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who declared to be Eastern Orthodox, 12% Catholics, and 9% other Christians.
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United Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith in the Republic of Belarus
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Before the 14th century, the Orthodox church was dominant in Belarus. The
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1234:"Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe"
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In 2023, Freedom House rated Belarus’ religious freedom as 1 out of 4.
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was headed by an ethnic Russian, Metropolitan Filaret, who headed an
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261:. The Catholic archdiocese of Belarus was headed by an ethnic Pole,
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Muslims in Belarus are represented by small communities of ethnic
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
228:. The first Protestant Church in Belarus was created in Brest by
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Russo-centrism as an ideological project of Belarusian identity
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Union of Evangelical-Lutheran Church Congregations in Belarus
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In the 16th century, a crisis began in Christianity: the
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Statistics from belstat.gov.by (бюллетень). See page 22.
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Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Iĺja.
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began in an Orthodox area. From the mid-16th century
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1328:Freedom House, Belarus page, Retrieved 2023-04-25
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1509:Belarus Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith
1100:Belarus government website, Retrieved 2023-04-25
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995:Paganism in Belarus is mostly represented by
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869:Interior of Saint Kaimir Catholic Church in
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1131:Jan Zaprudnik and Helen Fedor. "Religion."
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87:
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1664:Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
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1035:Belarusian Evangelical Reformed Church
925:Belarusian Evangelical Reformed Church
915:Church of the Grace (Царква Благадаць
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1877:Union State of Russia and Belarus
1312:Belarusian Political Scene Review
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898:Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
173:By the end of the 12th century,
979:. All of them are followers of
240:Religion in post-Soviet Belarus
1659:Belarusian Democratic Republic
1642:Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1040:Freedom of religion in Belarus
940:History of the Jews in Belarus
501:Other Christian denominations
295:Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
1:
1838:Presidential Security Service
1674:Annexation of Western Belarus
307:Generations and Gender Survey
234:Counter-Reformation in Poland
230:Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł
224:ideas began spreading in the
1823:Ministry of Internal Affairs
82: Other religions (0.2%)
66: Other Christian (1.0%)
1786:Central Election Commission
1491:Evangelical Reformed Church
1239:. Pew Forum. Archived from
883:Soviet policies toward the
32:Religion in Belarus (2020)
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1030:Catholic Church in Belarus
1025:Belarusian Orthodox Church
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937:
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200:, then ruler of the Grand
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263:Cardinal Kazimir Sviontak
159:Belarusian Greek Catholic
58:Belarusian Greek Catholic
1818:State Security Committee
1766:Administrative divisions
1637:Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1232:ANALYSIS (10 May 2017).
226:Grand Duchy of Lithuania
1943:International sanctions
1627:Principality of Polotsk
1367:Christianity in Belarus
1133:Belarus (Country Study)
846:Russian Orthodox Church
817:Eastern Orthodox Church
773:communities. Under the
259:Russian Orthodox Church
18:Christianity in Belarus
2215:Bosnia and Herzegovina
2022:Awards and decorations
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214:Protestant Reformation
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1304:Aliaksiej Lastoŭski.
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1375:Eastern Christianity
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93:Church of All Saints
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2436:States with limited
2166:Religion in Europe
1681:Republic of Belarus
1045:Hinduism in Belarus
1011:Freedom of religion
786:Pew Research Center
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283:Belarusian language
151:Catholic Christians
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