RUSSIA


First monument to Soviet Union’s Catholic victims


RUSSIA’S CATHOLIC archbishop has unveiled the first monument to Catholics who died under Soviet rule, to coincide with the first comprehensive data on church victims, writes Jonathan Luxmoore. “These acts of violence were unleashed by


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a totalitarian system which left so many victims behind it,” said Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, president of Russia’s Bishops’ Conference. “Though modest in scale, today’s event will help ensure such political repressions are never repeated.” The Italian-born archbishop was speaking at a conference marking the All-Russian Remembrance Day for Political Repression, after unveiling the monument at Levashovo, near St Petersburg. Commemorating “Catholics of all rites and nationalities”, it stands in Levashovo’s cemetery, where 47,000 people were shot by the Soviet NKVD paramilitary police in between 1937 and 1954. The Catholic Church had 1,158 parishes,


1,491 churches and 2,194 clergy in Russia before the 1917 Russian Revolution, and numbered around five million faithful. According to new data in the Church’s Nash Kraj quarterly, a total of 422 priests were shot, tortured to death or killed during deportation over the following two decades, 183 disappeared while serving prison and camp sentences and 252 fled the country. A further 962 monks, nuns and laypeople were killed for faith-related reasons, out of a total of 1,994 Catholics whose fates are known and documented.


TURKEY


Patriarch condemns cemetery attack


THE ORTHODOX Ecumenical Patriarch has deplored the devastation of a Christian cemetery on one of Turkey’s Aegean islands, warning that the incident risked eroding expectations of improvement for the country’s religious minorities, writes Jonathan Luxmoore. “We’ve just begun to detect the first signs of hope that our problems might be solved, and we now again face a hostile oppressor,” Bartholomew I told journalists in Istanbul. At least 78 graves were wrecked and stripped of crosses during the attack on Gokceada island during Turkey’s 29 October National Day. The outrage on the island, the patriarch’s birthplace and a centre for Greek Orthodoxy, was also condemned by Turkey’s Government.


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