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The history of religion in the countries that now comprise Belarus could be only called at best, extremely tumultuous.
Sadly, the history of religions practiced in these areas include persecution, pogroms, forced conversions, exiled and imprisoned leadership and during Word War II the nightmare called the Holocaust decimated Jewish populations.  


[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Religie_w_I_Rz-plitej_1750.svg/754px-Religie_w_I_Rz-plitej_1750.svg.png Map of religions in Belarus 1750]


 
[http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/fishstein/images/11_06%20Pale%20of%20Settlement.jpg Map of Legal Jewish Settlement in Russia 1825]
Sadly, the histories of religions practiced in these areas include a frightful legacy of persecution, pogroms, forced conversions, exiled and imprisoned practitioners and leadership. Before and during World War II Roman Catholic minorities were slaughtered and the nightmare called the Holocaust decimated Jewish populations.
 
 
 
[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Religie_w_I_Rz-plitej_1750.svg/754px-Religie_w_I_Rz-plitej_1750.svg.png Map of religions in Belarus 1750]
 
[http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/fishstein/images/11_06%20Pale%20of%20Settlement.jpg Map of Legal Jewish Settlement in Russia 1825]  


==== Religions  ====
==== Religions  ====


===== Jewish  =====
===== Jewish  =====
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement The Pale of Settlement]


===== Roman Catholic  =====
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement The Pale of Settlement]


[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Belarus History of Roman Catholic Church in Belarus]
===== Roman Catholic   =====


[http://www.catholic.by/2/belarus/church-bel-history.html Roman Catholic Church in Belarus] History and portal to Catholic.by (today's Catholic Church in Belarus)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Belarus History of Roman Catholic Church in Belarus]


===== Greek Catholic =====
[http://www.catholic.by/2/belarus/church-bel-history.html Roman Catholic Church in Belarus] History and portal to Catholic.by (today's Catholic Church in Belarus)


[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Greek_Catholic_Church History of the Greek Catholic Church in Belarus]
===== Greek Catholic   =====


[[Category:Belarus]] [[Category:Histories]]
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Greek_Catholic_Church History of the Greek Catholic Church in Belarus]

Revision as of 12:02, 27 December 2014

The history of religion in the countries that now comprise Belarus could be only called at best, extremely tumultous.

Sadly, the history of religions practiced in these areas include persecution, pogroms, forced conversions, exiled and imprisoned leadership and during Word War II the nightmare called the Holocaust decimated Jewish populations.

Map of religions in Belarus 1750

Map of Legal Jewish Settlement in Russia 1825

Religions[edit | edit source]

Jewish [edit | edit source]

The Pale of Settlement

Roman Catholic [edit | edit source]

History of Roman Catholic Church in Belarus

Roman Catholic Church in Belarus History and portal to Catholic.by (today's Catholic Church in Belarus)

Greek Catholic [edit | edit source]

History of the Greek Catholic Church in Belarus