News & Events in Belarus

MINSK, 2 October (BelTA) – A ceremony involving Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko took place in Minsk on 2 October. As part of the ceremony capsules containing soil from graves of the Belarusian warriors, who died far away from their native land, were buried in the crypt of the All Saints Memorial Temple, BelTA has learned.

Heads of the Orthodox church, Catholic church, Muslim church, and the Jewish church in Belarus took part in the ceremony as well as representatives of diplomatic missions of seven countries — Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and Italy — from where the capsules had been delivered.

During the ceremony Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl Pavel said a brief prayer, sprinkled the capsules and the niches in the crypt with holy water. The capsules were placed by soldiers of the guard of honor company. At the end of the ceremony Alexander Lukashenko went to the center of the crypt where a holy fire lamp was in order to light and place a commemorative candle. Meanwhile, the men’s choir of the All Saints parish performed a canticle. After lighting the candle the head of state approached the wall where the niches are located to get briefed about the capsules.