Grass Valley priest’s courage revives Christianity in Communist Belarus (The Grass Valley Union)
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 ...December 24 2009 05:08 pm | Christianity News