SVETLOGORSK, Belarus — Another member of a Council of Churches Baptist congregation in Svetlogorsk in southeast Belarus has been fined for refusing to say who was reading from the Bible when armed police raided the church during a worship service May 17. Other members of the church, which meets without state registration, face similar prosecution as does the owner of the home where the church meets. Two other members, Vladimir Daineko and Yuri Volodenko, were already fined June 8. (F18)
Baptist fined for silence after church raid in Belarus
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