{"id":200041,"date":"2008-06-02T08:07:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T08:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/?p=200041"},"modified":"2021-05-08T18:57:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T15:57:38","slug":"200041","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/2008\/06\/02\/200041.html","title":{"rendered":"More than hundred people came to solidarity action with church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People had lighted candles, read prayers and sang religious hymns. Flags with image of Lady Mary were waving above the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>A year has passed since believers and democratic activists began active struggle against ruining of Bernardine monastery and for returning it to Catholic Church. Military commandant&#8217;s office was housed in the monastery for a long time. The city authorities planned to rebuild it into a hotel with a swimming pool and bowling center. But the public gained these plans hadn\u2019t been put into practice. However the church hasn\u2019t been returned to the believers, who owned it until 1863.<\/p>\n<p>The prayer lasted about an hour and ended with collective singing of the national anthem \u201cGreat God.\u201d After that believers put candles in the form of a big cross near the entrance of the church.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-1.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-2.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-3.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-4.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-5.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-6.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-7.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-8.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-9.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-10.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\/photos\/20080415-minsk-11.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer for returning of St Josef Church was held near the church 14 April, ahead of Solidarity Day. More than a hundred members of the civil campaign \u201cEuropean Belarus\u201d took part in prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}