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Article: Catholic Church asks Russian Cabinet to explain bishop's expulsion
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- April 22, 2002
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Dateline: MOSCOW
The Roman Catholic Church will ask the Russian Cabinet for an explanation
of why a bishop was barred from entering Russia, the second case this
month to stoke fears of persecution of Catholics, a church official
said Monday.
"Many Catholic believers have the impression that a large-scale anti-
Catholic campaign ... regrettably involving representatives of state
structures ... has begun in Russia," Rev. Igor Kowalewsky, a spokesman
for the Catholic Church in Russia, said at a news conference.
Bishop Jerzy Mazur, en route to his Siberian diocese from his native
Poland, was barred from entering Russia when he arrived at a Moscow
airport on ...