The president of Belarus said the Russian Orthodox Church should become the former Soviet republic’s “state ideology.” “We are an Orthodox country and we will always be devoted to Orthodoxy,” President Alexander Lukashenko told the Russian Orthodox Church’s Patriarch Alexy II, according to the Tass new agency. Orthodox Christianity is the predominant religion in Belarus, but the 10- million country is also home to a large Roman Catholic community and approximately 100,000 Jews.
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