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“You see, we did not close the churches, even if they were involved in anti-Lukashenko, anti-state propaganda. We did not close them, on the contrary, we tried to support and defend them. You saw it in the (Independence) Square (where the Red Church is It is true that they made up a lie that we do not allow them to go to church there, “the state news agency BelTA quoted A. Lukashenko.
“The churches in Belarus have worked and will continue to work,” promised the president.
VIDEO: The armored military equipment moved into the center of Minsk, where tens of thousands of protesters gathered on Sunday.
He also assured that “we will never allow any state pressure on the Catholic Church, Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, whoever is here.”
“Because it is our pride: a confessional world, a national world. We have always been proud and proud of that, ”said the president.
Earlier Tuesday, Lukashenko said that the head of the Belarusian Catholic Church, Tadevus Kandrusevich, had not been allowed to enter Belarus from Poland because “he got a job in Poland.”
On August 26, the force structures dispelled a protest in the Plaza de la Independencia. According to witnesses to the incident, some 100 participants of the campaign were blocked by OMON officials in the Red Church in the square.
At the time, Lukashenko, referring to OMON representatives, said that “they defended those who prayed in the church from the protest crowd,” BelTa said.
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