{"id":561970,"date":"2026-07-23T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=561970"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:51:55","slug":"farewell-to-sviatlana-kurs-to-take-place-in-warsaw-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/farewell-to-sviatlana-kurs-to-take-place-in-warsaw-on-sunday","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Sviatlana Kurs to Take Place in Warsaw on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The family of <b>Sviatlana Kurs<\/b> has announced the time and place of the farewell ceremony for the Belarusian writer.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The memorial Mass will begin at 2:00 p.m. at St. Alexander&#8217;s Church in Three Crosses Square.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A civil memorial ceremony will follow at 3:30 p.m. at the Museum of Free Belarus, 11 Foksal Street,&#8221;<\/i> the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The family has asked mourners to limit the number of flowers they bring.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, a <a href=\"https:\/\/bysol.org\/en\/private\/pa_shto_idziesh\/\">fundraising campaign<\/a> to cover the costs of the farewell ceremony for one of Belarus&#8217; most prominent writers was launched on Thursday evening. Belarusians raised the required amount within six hours.<\/p>\n<p>Sviatlana Kurs, who wrote under the pen name Eva Vie\u017enaviec, died in Warsaw on July 19. Following the public farewell ceremony, her family plans to bury the writer in Belarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of Sviatlana Kurs has announced the time and place of the farewell ceremony for the Belarusian writer. &#8220;The memorial Mass will begin at 2:00 p.m. at St. Alexander&#8217;s Church in Three Crosses Square. A civil memorial ceremony will follow at 3:30 p.m. at the Museum of Free Belarus, 11 Foksal Street,&#8221; the statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":561969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a621c7f18177.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Farewell to Sviatlana Kurs to Take Place in Warsaw on Sunday"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561970","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}