Mother's Day Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Belarus==== Belarus celebrates Mother's Day on 14 October. Like other ex-Communist republics, Belarus used to celebrate only International Women's Day on 8 March. Mother's Day in Belarus was officially established by the Belarusian government, and it was celebrated for the first time in 1996.<ref name="belarusgov">{{citation |title= Support for mothers remains the key priority of Belarus' social policy |date= 14 October 2009 |author= The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus |url= http://www.government.by/en/content/1696 |access-date= 7 June 2013 |archive-date= 30 March 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140330192128/http://www.government.by/en/content/1696 |url-status= dead }}</ref> The celebration of the Virgin Mary (the holiday of Protection of the Holy Mother of God) is celebrated on the same day.<ref>{{citation |title = Belarus celebrates Mother's Day for 15th time. The President congratulated the Belarusian mothers. |work = [[Belteleradio]] |date = 14 October 2010 |url = http://www.tvr.by/eng/society.asp?id=37013 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140929180047/http://www.tvr.by/eng/society.asp?id=37013 |archive-date = 29 September 2014 |df = dmy-all }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page