BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

23/04/2009

Lukashenko: Vatican upbeat about Belarus authorities' attitude to Catholics

Minsk, April 23, Interfax - The Roman Catholic Church has highly appraised the Belarusian authorities' confessional policy, President Alexander Lukashenko said in an annual address to the nation and parliament.

"My possible visit to Pope Benedict XVI reflects the Roman Catholic hierarchs' highest appraisal of our policy towards Catholics," he said. "There were so many problems once in relations between the state and church, first of all the Catholic Church. Where are these problems now? They are gone," he said.

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia is also upbeat about what Belarus is doing in relation to the Orthodox Church, Lukashenko said.

Belarus will become a model state from the confessional point of view, he said.

Source:

http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5963

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