СМИ: шведский приход подозревает монахинь из Свято-Елисаветинского монастыря в обмане

The Swedish parish in the village of Selanger suspects the nuns from the St. Elisabeth Monastery of cheating, reports Reform.by. The article entitled “Russian spy nuns deceived the parish in Selanger in Sweden” was prepared by the newspaper Sundsvalls Tidning and published in the public domain by Expressen.

2023.01.07 Alexander Lukashenko with Andrei Lemeshonok at St. Elisabeth Convent

According to the authors of the material, the nuns have been visiting Selanger for several years. This time, the parish offered them a table where they sold items to raise money for “lonely, sick, and orphaned children.” The nuns came from southern Sweden and were on their way to Norrbotten. However, on Wednesday, the parish received new information about visitors: there is a suspicion that the charity is completely going to war in Ukraine.

“I wish we could cancel this,” Helena Westerlind, the deaconess of the parish in Selanger, who received the nuns, told the newspaper.

According to the press secretary of the People’s Embassy of Belarus in Sweden, Dmitry Wasserman, the monastery and the nuns operate under a “false flag”.

“Part of the money may go to poor children, but this is an activity aimed at preparing children to become soldiers of Russian nationalists,” he said in a commentary to the newspaper.

According to Helena Westerlind, she was shocked by this news.

“We can only apologize for what happened. We absolutely do not want to be associated with supporting Russia,” she said.

Recall that on January 7, 2023, Alexander Lukashenko praised the St. Elisabeth Monastery, which he visits on Christmas, for collecting assistance for the Russian military in Ukraine.

“You are doing the right thing. Do not pay attention to a dozen or two paid people. We help not only our Russian brothers but also the Russians, I have never hidden this. And my yesterday’s visit to the military, to Russian military speaks openly about the fact that we supported and continue to support our brothers. But we do not forget about Ukrainians, either. About 10,000 who fled the war found a permanent place of residence and shelter in our country last year alone,” he said.

Lukashenka stressed that it is necessary to extend a helping hand to everyone who needs it.

It became known in November 2022 that help was being collected for the Russian military in the St. Elisabeth Monastery, and letters were being written to them with the text “Dear Soldier from Belarus”. The project “Help to Brothers” was opened in the monastery, and a volunteer group was created in August 2022 “with the initiative and blessing of the spiritual father of the monastery, Archpriest Andrei Lemeshonok.”

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SVT 2023.03.10 # Nuns from Belarus had a collection on church premises in Sundsvall – Sweden. Accused of supporting the Russian army in Ukraine

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