MOLDAVIA
Kishinev — Belt'sy
This is not the first year that Catholics of the city of Belt'sy have urgently asked Moscow and the local government to register their parish council and their house of worship. Finally, the long-awaited day of victory arrived. On November 27, 1979, the Catholics of the city of Belt'sy received an official notice stating that they were being granted permission to have a house of worship and that their community and its council have been registered. According to the document, the council and the house of worship were legalized as of September 6, but the local government had continued to torment the people, keeping them in suspense for some three months.
The happy news spread quickly throughout the republic. Father Vladislav Zavalniuk for the first time openly ministered to the Catholics on Sunday, December 2, 1979; the joy was boundless.
On December 5, however, the Religious Affairs Commissioner summoned the chairman of the Kishinev Parish Council and informed him that Father Zavalniuk would no longer be able to work in Moldavia.
1.Aušra (Dawn), no. 18.
2.Perspektyvos (Perspectives), nos. 13, 14, 15, 16. The issues are published monthly.
3.Rūpintojėlis (The Pensive Christ), nos. 11, 12.
4.Ateitis (Future), nos. 2, 3.
5.Tiesos kelias (The Path of Truth), no. 14.
Fellow Lithuanian, Do Not Forget!
Petras Plumpa, [Miss] Nijolė Sadūnaitė, Sergei Kovalev, Vladas Lapienis, Balys Gajauskas, Viktoras Petkus, Petras Paulaitis, Antanas Terleckas, Julius Sasnauskas, and others are enduring the yoke of bondage in order that you may live and believe in freedom.