{"id":540116,"date":"2026-05-07T19:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=540116"},"modified":"2026-05-08T05:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:29:24","slug":"st-elisabeth-monastery-banned-from-displaying-weapons-at-may-9-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/st-elisabeth-monastery-banned-from-displaying-weapons-at-may-9-celebrations","title":{"rendered":"St Elisabeth Monastery Banned From Displaying Weapons At May 9 Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>St Elisabeth Monastery in Minsk has been banned from displaying weapons at events marking Victory Day. One of the organisers of the celebration, nun <strong>Marfa<\/strong>, said this, \u201cChristian Vision\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/christianvision\/5055\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, this year <em>\u201cparticipants portraying soldiers were only allowed to attend the event without weapons \u2014 with examples of radio equipment and clothing\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYCWTTWjFjg\/\">programme<\/a> still includes pro-Russian and militaristic elements: the \u201cImmortal Regiment\u201d march, Cossack activities, sabre-cutting training, grenade throwing and a minefield.<\/p>\n<p>Since last autumn, a museum complex called \u201cFatherland\u201d has been under construction at a monastery site in the village of Lysaya Hara. According to the complex\u2019s Instagram posts, it is planned as a permanent venue for such events, the outlet notes.<\/p>\n<p>St Elisabeth Monastery and its confessor, Archpriest <strong>Andrei Lemeshonak<\/strong>, are known for publicly supporting Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. The monastery has repeatedly organised events in support of Russian aggression. In recent years, nuns have been expelled from Christmas fairs in several European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Elisabeth Monastery in Minsk has been banned from displaying weapons at events marking Victory Day. One of the organisers of the celebration, nun Marfa, said this, \u201cChristian Vision\u201d reports. According to her, this year \u201cparticipants portraying soldiers were only allowed to attend the event without weapons \u2014 with examples of radio equipment and clothing\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":530729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fd4a87c25ba.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"St Elisabeth Monastery Banned From Displaying Weapons At May 9 Celebrations"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}