Belarus denies permission for foreign-born Catholic priest’s appointment

Catholic World News ^ | December 9, 2016

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The government of Belarus has denied permission for a Catholic priest from Russia to serve in a parish in Vitebsk, the Forum 18 news service reports.

The government rejected a request for permission for Father Klemens Werth to serve as a pastor. Under the law of Belarus, government approval is required for any foreigner to act as a religious minister. The government of Belarus has repeatedly denied permission for foreign-born Catholic priests to serve in the country.

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On 7 November (2014), Belarus celebrated Revolution Day - one of only two countries in the world still officially celebrating the 1917 Russian October Revolution. A week prior, Minsk hosted the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congress, which gathered nearly every communist of the former USSR in one place. Then there is the fact that two Communist parties operate in Belarus.

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Klemens was born in 1969 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

His father originally lived in Schoenchen on the Volga River and his mother in Speyer near Odessa. His parents met in Kazakhstan, where they had been deported to during Stalinist times.

Klemens still has ten siblings. His elder brother Joseph is the Bishop of Novosibirsk in Siberia, and his sister Rosa is working with Bishop Clemens Pickel in Saratov. She belongs to the Order of “Servants of Jesus in the Eucharist.”

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Pope Francis meets with President of Belarus

A statement from the Holy See Press Office called the discussions “cordial”, and said “satisfaction was expressed for the good state of bilateral relations and various themes of mutual interest were considered, with particular reference to the life of the Church in Belarus and the peaceful co-existence between Catholic and Orthodox communities, and with other religious confessions, in the country.”

Bergoglio is at best, a dupe when it comes to communists or at worst a willing agent of them.