BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/12/2009

Grass Valley priest's courage revives Christianity in Communist Belarus

By Michelle Rindels

By the time Father Sylvester Kwiatkowski arrived in the frozen, Soviet republic of Belarus as a missionary priest in 1989, the Catholic Church was all but gone.

Communists had shuttered the churches 50 years before. Priests had been condemned to work in prison camps in Kazakhstan and Christians forced into hiding.

So it was under the thin guise of a tourist visa that the young seminary graduate rolled into town, dozens of Bibles smuggled in beneath the floorboards of his car.

For more on the story, see the Christmas Day edition of The Union.

Source:

http://www.theunion.com/article/20091224/NEWS/912249985/1001&parentprofile=1053


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