Back to the Catacombs for Russian Catholics
NewsMax.com
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001
Russia’s Eastern Rite Catholics are being driven underground, thanks to a law that all but bans the Roman Catholic Church.
According to Bishop Yulian Gbur of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in Lvov, Roman Catholic parishes have gone underground as a result of the enforcement of a 1997 law that restricted the rights of what was termed "non-indigenous" faiths.
That law stipulated that faiths other than the Russian Orthodox Church had to be re-registered with the government no later than Dec. 31, 2000. The government, however, refused to re-register any of the so-called non-indigenous faiths, including eastern Catholicism.
According to Catholic World News service, Russian Orthodox Church opposition to Roman Catholics has played a part in the plight of Russia’s Catholics.
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