Priest from Mosar village to share experience in combating alcohol addiction

Renowned in the Vitebsk oblast, Josef Bulka, a Catholic priest-prelate in the village of Mosar, the Glubokoye region will share his experience in counteracting drunkenness with the district police officers of the Vitebsk oblast. The priest will talk about his methods to combat and prevent alcohol addiction during an oblast seminar on April 11, BelTA learnt from Richard Malets, the head of the preventive measures office of the interior affairs department of the Vitebsk oblast executive committee. The villages of Mosar and Udelo are considered the zones of sobriety. “This is the result of the joint efforts of the reverend prelate and the local district police,” Richard Malets reasons. Besides, both the parties use their own methods: the first one – the Administrative Code, the other – through homilies. Owing to the 82-year-old prelate and the local people, the village of Mosar has become an attractive tourist site with an anti-alcohol museum and a picturesque dendropark with an alley of sobriety around St. Anna’s Catholic Church. No domestic crime has been committed in the villages of Mosar and Udelo over the several past years. During the seminar district police officers will get familiar with the methods to prevent domestic crimes and the work of the interior bodies in line with Decree #18 “On additional measures to protect children in troubled families”.