More Polish Catholic Priests have trouble re-entering Belarus and Russia

Yesterday a Polish priest, Edward Mackiewicz from a parish in Rostow in Belarus, was stopped on the Polish-Belarus border. He had lost his documents which allowed him to cross the border and was refused entry. On Monday, the same fate fell upon another Polish priest Jaroslaw Wisniewski, who was returning from his holiday in South Korea and Japan to Russia. The ITAR-TASS agency leant that Wisniewski is on the list of people who are forbidden entry into Russia. A representative of the Russian Orthodox Church firmly said that while his Church is in conflict with Vatican officials, it had absolutely nothing to do with these cases. These were the fourth and fifth cases of refusing Catholic priests entry into those countries since April. (Zycie, pp. 1, 3) M.M.