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| | Catholic World News : Russian Catholics Wrestle with Registration Proces: A Case Study |
 | | BELGOROD, Russia, May 30, 01 (KESTON/CWNews.com) -- Catholics in the southern Russian city of Belgorod, who have unsuccessfully tried to register their parish for over two years, may be on the verge of success. |
 | | Questioned by Keston during the course of the same day, the official in charge of registration of religious organizations in Belgorod region, Gyulnara Aliyeva, went to considerable length to stress that there were "real violations of the law" in the Catholics' registration application. |
 | | On May 15, Keston asked Belgorod's plenipotentiary for religious affairs, Aleksei Glushchenko, whether the decision to transfer the church to the Orthodox would not cause further stand-offs over it, such as when Father Kempa's predecessor, Father Jozef Guncaga, celebrated Mass in front of the building during 1998 and was later arrested. |
| www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=15630 (656 words) |
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