The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima in Shumilina, Belarus. Aleksey Bashni via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate’s Polish province, which oversees the order’s mission in neighboring Belarus, confirmed May 10 the detention of Fr Share based at the diocesan shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Shumilina were in custody awaiting trial “for alleged subversive activities against the Belarusian state.” O.M.I. superior general Fr. Luis Ignacio Rois Alonso said May 10 that the order was “deeply concerned about the news of the imprisonment of two of our brothers in Belarus.” “I am aware that the entire charismatic family is also praying earnestly for them,” he wrote in a message to the Polish province’s leader Fr “If you have the chance to communicate with our brothers please pass on our warmest greetings and reaffirm our support during these difficult times.” The human rights monitoring group Christian Vision for Belarus said on social media that the two priests, who are citizens of Belarus were held in a detention center in Vitebsk before their trial “The clergy were subjected to administrative arrest,” it said Christian Vision for Belarus said that Yukhnievich is the leader of a group representing the country’s monastic communities and the priests were detained after a meeting of the Diocese of Vitebsk’s priests and religious at their church Yukhnievich and Lemekh join a growing list of clergy who have had brushes with the Belarusian authorities in recent years Leave a comment a nation of more than 9 million people bordered by Lithuania has been led by the authoritarian Alexander Lukashenko since 1994 Tensions between Church and state increased dramatically following a disputed presidential election in 2020. After Lukashenko, who describes himself as an “Orthodox atheist,” claimed victory with over 80% of the vote there were mass protests followed by police repression the country’s most prominent Catholic leader was blocked from returning to Belarus after a trip to Poland but retired from his post of Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev shortly afterward Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 Belarus has become ever more tightly linked with Russia who are a minority in the predominantly Eastern Orthodox country have experienced repeated difficulties with the authorities in the past three years But it is hard to determine the extent of the problem as press freedom is restricted in Belarus The authorities reportedly detained two Catholic priests in the space of a week last November. Orthodox and Protestant Christians have also had numerous contacts with the authorities The Belarusian government insists that it is fighting a battle against “extremism.” But human rights activists say it defines the concept broadly or social media posts it sees as critical of the authorities State media frequently stress the strong ties between Belarus and the Holy See Full diplomatic relations were established between the two sovereign entities in 1992 following the collapse of the Soviet Union In a May 13 message Belarusian bishops’ conference president Archbishop Iosif Staneuski invited Catholics to pray for priests for help in our vocations and endurance in our vocations The authorities in Belarus detained two Catholic priests May 8, amid an ongoing crackdown on civil society in the East European country. The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima in Shumilina, Belarus. Aleksey Bashni via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate\u2019s Polish province, which oversees the order\u2019s mission in neighboring Belarus, confirmed May 10 the detention of Fr Share were in custody awaiting trial \u201Cfor alleged subversive activities against the Belarusian state.\u201D O.M.I. superior general Fr. Luis Ignacio Rois Alonso said May 10 that the order was \u201Cdeeply concerned about the news of the imprisonment of two of our brothers in Belarus.\u201D \u201CI am aware that the entire charismatic family is also praying earnestly for them,\u201D he wrote in a message to the Polish province\u2019s leader Fr \u201CIf you have the chance to communicate with our brothers please pass on our warmest greetings and reaffirm our support during these difficult times.\u201D The human rights monitoring group Christian Vision for Belarus said on social media that the two priests, who are citizens of Belarus \u201CThe clergy were subjected to administrative arrest,\u201D it said Christian Vision for Belarus said that Yukhnievich is the leader of a group representing the country\u2019s monastic communities and the priests were detained after a meeting of the Diocese of Vitebsk\u2019s priests and religious at their church.  Leave a comment Tensions between Church and state increased dramatically following a disputed presidential election in 2020. After Lukashenko, who describes himself as an \u201COrthodox atheist,\u201D claimed victory with over 80% of the vote there were mass protests followed by police repression.  the country\u2019s most prominent Catholic leader The authorities reportedly detained two Catholic priests in the space of a week last November. Orthodox and Protestant Christians have also had numerous contacts with the authorities The Belarusian government insists that it is fighting a battle against \u201Cextremism.\u201D But human rights activists say it defines the concept broadly or social media posts it sees as critical of the authorities.  State media frequently stress the strong ties between Belarus and the Holy See In a May 13 message Belarusian bishops\u2019 conference president Archbishop Iosif Staneuski invited Catholics to pray for priests Russian news outlets have identified Instagram model Maria Shumilina as the pitch invader who ran onto the field during last week's Belgium-Finland Euro 2020 match in St Shumilina did her thing before security yanked her from the pitch as the cryptocurrency website had its 15 minutes of fame.The 20-year-old Shumilina wrote “Ooops SORRY” on her Instagram page before locking it down after being identified by Russian outlets RUSSIA - JUNE 21: A pitch invader is seen on the pitch during the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Group B match between Finland and Belgium at Saint Petersburg Stadium on June 21 You are agreeing to OutKick's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy DISCLAIMER: This site is 100% for entertainment purposes only and does not involve real money betting. 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If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-GAMBLER 5at2UNLV Beats UNLV3/19/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Tennis LAS VEGAS - The 28th-ranked Purdue women's tennis team had no problem in its first outdoor match of the season The Boilermakers extended their winning streak to seven straight while lifting their record to 9-2 3-0 B1G and handing the Rebels their 10th loss of the season (5-10) A 6-2 decision from Lynda Xepoleas and Natalia Davila at No 2 against Santa Shumilina and Paola Artiga earned the Boilermaker pair their fifth-straight win Purdue has now won the doubles battle in nine of its 11 matches this season and are 8-0 when scoring first 58 Columbia is next on the docket for the Boilermakers Action from the Fertitta Tennis Complex is slated to get underway at 1 p.m Box Score LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - Senior Day Photo Gallery Saturday's Senior Day was a downer for the UNLV women's tennis team as it lost 5-2 to arch-rival San Diego State at a hot and sunny Fertitta Tennis Complex The Rebels closed out their regular season at 10-10 overall and 2-3 in the Mountain West while the Aztecs improved to 11-12 and 4-1 in league play which is the defending champion of the conference tournament will wait until Monday to learn its seeding and opponent at the annual event being played next week in Fresno Saturday was the last home match for the greatest duo in program history -- seniors Lucia Batta and Aleksandra Josifoska -- and the final results were mixed. Batta and her partner Santa Shumilina won their doubles match at the top spot in the lineup but SDSU took the other two matches to earn a 1-0 lead Moving to singles, the hosts actually took a brief 2-1 lead as freshman Paola Artiga whitewashed Isabelle Hoorn 6-0 6-0 on court six and Josifoska rolled past Kristin Buth 6-2 a stunning career dual-match record of 26-1 in conference play The native of Macedonia's lone MW dual-match loss came at San Diego State on April 17 did not have as positive an ending at Fertitta In a battle of ranked players at the top position UNLV's other senior lost at home to a conference opponent in a dual match for the first time in her record-breaking career as No 49 Laura Antonana swept 68th-ranked Batta 6-3 as the Aztecs grabbed the final four points Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker a novelist who travels around Europe to teach classes and participate in literary events The books are structured around encounters with strangers and friends who confide in our narrator about their thoughts and usually to offer questions or interpretations of what she hears rather than stories of her own She plays the role of listener—an engaged and challenging listener “I had come to believe more and more in the virtues of passivity and of living a life as unmarked by self-will as possible.” In a way as Faye is drawn forward not by her own desires but by randomness and the interventions of others this trilogy offers a document of passivity the very existence of these highly stylized and innovative books makes nonsense of that idea Cusk must draw on all the resources of willfulness to construct an image of a life lived without will And this tension—between Faye as the passive protagonist on one hand and the selective and discriminating narrator on the other—might be the chief animating force of the trilogy Kudos requires a curiously effortful suspension of disbelief the reader must agree to believe in a world where pretty much every human being shares a tendency to deliver philosophical monologues on themes of literature It’s a world in which apparently normal people are always coming out with sentences like “What is history other than memory without pain?” Faye’s passivity makes it difficult—at times impossible—to decipher the meaning of these statements The concept of “memory without pain” might sound a little grandiose but then Faye didn’t say it—she simply reported that it had been said Maybe the mistake is in trying to attribute any significance to such a statement at all; but here it is in a literary novel where as readers we have nothing to do but attribute significance Cusk forces the reader to confront questions about meaning Faye finds herself in conversation with a female journalist who tells a long and involved story about her sister’s marriage “While her story suggested that human lives could be governed by the laws of narrative … it was in fact merely her interpretation of events that created that illusion.” By “interpreting” our lives as stories affixing meanings to their essentially random outcomes The struggle a reader undergoes when reading these books is just a miniature version of the struggle we undergo by living: We want to attach significance to the way events unfold but we also know on some level that to do so is delusional The novel seems a form particularly ill-suited to make the point that narrative itself is merely self-deception Anyone who really believed that would put the book down there and then—or stop writing it Cusk has triumphed in the completion of this masterly trilogy; the reader must continue guessing at meaning improvising and reworking it as the story unfolds When a writer named Linda appears in the novel with “elaborately strappy high-heeled sandals” in which she can hardly walk and her hair in “matted-looking hanks,” we might assume she’s a figure of fun or pity she’s recounting a conversation with a woman on an airplane that’s strikingly reminiscent of Faye’s own encounters The woman had been in a skiing accident and broken nearly every bone in her body Linda says the story reminded her of having a baby “You survive your own death,” she explains after which “there’s nothing left to do except talk about it.” I couldn’t help thinking this sounded like something Faye Much of the process of finding meaning in Kudos involves this kind of guessing game Which of the characters are acting as partial spokespeople for Cusk’s own interests and which are supposed to be representatives of a sordid as in a scene where Faye speaks with Gerta and then immediately afterward has a conversation with Ryan Gerta—whose “long and complex” surname signifies her connection to European aristocracy—says of her children that “their lives seem to me to be without beauty.” Earlier in the novel Faye herself remarks on the “blunting or loss of our own instinct for beauty.” By echoing Faye’s concerns Gerta seems to move closer to the philosophical substance of the novel: Here’s a character we can take seriously who appeared briefly in Outline and reappears here fitter and wealthier could not be a more transparent example of vulgarity Discussing a literary anthology he has put together for charity “We couldn’t ask people like yourself for contributions … we needed the big names for that.” Faye’s direct quotation of this fairly minor slight gives it a magnified significance She doesn’t open herself to the charge of seeking sympathy by admitting that she feels insulted but the insult is recorded and left to the reader to interpret Though Faye—and Cusk—refrain from offering any evaluation of Ryan’s behavior I couldn’t help feeling that this sequence in which authorial judgment appears to be withheld but isn’t really A similar miscalculation had bothered me since the opening pages of Outline when Faye notices that a man is asking polite questions of her in conversation “as though he had learned to remind himself to do so and I wondered what or who had taught him that lesson which many people never learn.” It is probably true that “many people never learn” to conduct conversations according to Faye’s expertly tuned sense of good manners but that doesn’t strike me as such a penetrating insight Sometimes I had the sense that the chatty characters who populate these novels were just gamely trying to amuse our austere narrator who was guaranteed to miss the joke every time Speaking to the New Yorker while in the process of working on this novel as disgust for the repellent qualities of other people.” And it does seem unfortunate that Faye looks on so many of the people she meets with revulsion the downstairs neighbors who caused so much trouble in Transit were depicted not only with a lack of sympathy—John actually seemed to be suffering from cancer which didn’t trouble Faye whatsoever—but with a profound aesthetic distaste Faye noted in forensic detail the “sagging yellowing ceiling” in their apartment and Paula’s “large as if to conflate poverty with ugliness and ugliness with evil Faye started referring to her neighbors as “the trolls”: these afflicted poor people who lived in the flat underneath her house and kept trying to ruin her life a journalist remarks that writers must remain “buried in bourgeois life—as he had recently read it described somewhere—like a tick in an animal’s fur.” The suppressed joke is that the journalist is paraphrasing from Outline but the joke is also an intentional repetition Faye is “buried” in bourgeois life—she spent much of Transit buying and remodeling a home in London—and it’s no criticism to say so But the image of the tick suggests parasitism or hostility she notices that a fellow novelist is happy to make conversation with “the driver of the bus and the hotel staff” but “tended to avoid those he might have considered his equals well-known writers.” This does not seem to be meant ironically Faye’s attitude to the nameless bus drivers who in comparison to Gerta is implicitly nouveau riche—a wealthy Irish person can be nothing but—suggests that she is doing more than “hiding” among the bourgeoisie the values of these novels are ultimately bourgeois values Cusk approaches the philosophical questions of the books with what you might call bourgeois vocabulary— religious knowing what she now knows about the laws of conventional life “I hoped to get the better of those laws,” Faye replies “by living within them.” She might equally be hoping to feel the protections of bourgeois life by living within it seem at times to corrode her perceptiveness the question of personal freedom predominates A female journalist speaks to Faye about “people who have freed themselves from their family relationships,” adding “There often seems to be a kind of emptiness in that freedom.” In conversation with another reporter later in the novel Faye describes her son’s close relationship with another family: “In taking their comfort he had created a responsibility towards them … he had given some of his freedom away.” Freedom is under constant assault from the forces of family life and friendship their insensitivities—represent a threat to the individual at every turn “Why is it so bad to depend on people?” Faye’s verbose and interesting response ranges through concepts of homesickness But I notice she doesn’t answer the question Kudos by Rachel Cusk Read all the pieces in the Slate Book Review. 28 Jun 2021Russian Instagram star Maria Shumilina took a leaf out of Kinsey Wolanski's book by streaking during Belgium and Finland's Euro 2020 clash last week Shumilina invaded the pitch at the Gazprom Arena while advertising a cryptocurrency before security intervened in similar fashion to Wolanski at the 2019 Champions League final reports suggest the streaker may have landed herself in hot water an investigation into Shumilina's pitch invasion has been opened by the Russian authorities - who have suspicions that someone working for Heineken was aware of the plan beforehand meaning she will be unable to attend any more fixtures at the tournament this summer the 20-year-old doesn't appear to be too disheartened by the fall-out from her pitch invasion uploading photos of her big moment on Instagram and writing: "Ooops SORRY" Shumilina invaded the pitch at the Gazprom Arena while advertising a cryptocurrency before security intervened(Image: GETTY)‌Shumilina has also urged fans to upload pictures of it on their own Instagram stories writing: "Share this photo in your story with the caption 'girl with euro' and I will like you." The influencer is hoping to draw similar levels of attention that Wolanski enjoyed when she stormed onto the pitch during Liverpool and Tottenham's Champions League final clash in Madrid two years ago But the 20-year-old doesn't appear to be too disheartened by the fall-out‌The model who was advertising adult website Vitaly Uncensored while streaking at the game gained over one million new followers on social media afterwards Wolanski recently told Names Magazine: "I definitely wasn’t prepared for what was to follow that game "But going into it I was excited to push things to the limit and see where it would go as I love living life to the fullest Want to be on the ball with all of the latest football news Well then sign up for the brilliant Daily Star football email newsletter From the latest transfer news to the agenda-setting stories get it all in your email inbox - don't miss a thing Simply type your email address into the box at the top of this article and hit 'subscribe' You'll receive an email with all of the top news stories every single morning You can find out more information on our email newsletter on this link here. 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