CNA Staff, Dec 9, 2020 / 08:00 am
The Church in Belarus appealed for prayers Tuesday after police detained two Catholic priests.
Catholic.by, the website of the Catholic Church in Belarus, said Dec. 8 that police had seized Fr. Viktar Zhuk S.J. and Fr. Alyaksei Varanko in Vitebsk, northeastern Belarus.
Zhuk is pastor of the local parish of St. Vladislav and Varanko serves at the Greek Catholic parish of the Resurrection of Christ.
The website said that police detained the priests on Tuesday afternoon and took them to the city's Pershamaiski police department.