{"id":545754,"date":"2026-05-26T22:34:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=545754"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:20:41","slug":"photo-of-belarusian-priest-heorhi-roi-placed-on-wanted-by-police-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/photo-of-belarusian-priest-heorhi-roi-placed-on-wanted-by-police-boards","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Belarusian Priest Heorhi Roi Placed on \u201cWanted by Police\u201d Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Archpriest Heorhi Roi<\/b>, who serves in a Belarusian Orthodox parish in Vilnius, said he saw himself featured on police boards titled \u201cWanted by Police.\u201d The wanted notice cites Parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-4 of the Belarusian Criminal Code on \u201cassisting extremist activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt turns out I am now on \u2018Wanted by Police\u2019 boards all across Belarus. So this is fame! A priest-criminal! Yes, life is an unpredictable thing,\u201d<\/i> he wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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Photo: facebook.com\/georgewroi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heorhi Roi was forced to leave Belarus for Lithuania due to persecution by the authorities. In 2023, together with priest Aliaksandr Kukhta<\/b>, he appealed to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew<\/b> with a request to accept them under his omophorion because \u201cfor reasons of conscience they cannot remain under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate.\u201d<\/i> In 2023, they were accepted into the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archpriest Heorhi Roi, who serves in a Belarusian Orthodox parish in Vilnius, said he saw himself featured on police boards titled \u201cWanted by Police.\u201d The wanted notice cites Parts 1 and 2 of Article 361-4 of the Belarusian Criminal Code on \u201cassisting extremist activity.\u201d \u201cIt turns out I am now on \u2018Wanted by Police\u2019 boards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a16711ce61bd.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Photo of Belarusian Priest Heorhi Roi Placed on \u201cWanted by Police\u201d Boards"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-545754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545754","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=545754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}