HRWF (18.05.2017) – In March 2016, the Ukrainian Parliament registered draft law No.4128, which regulates the procedure of changing the affiliation with particular religious centers by religious communities. A heated debate sparked around the bill, just as around a negative opinion on this matter by Chief Scientific Expert Department of the Parliament (HNEU). The father of […]
CONTINUE READINGInterfax-Religion (17.05.2017) – http://bit.ly/2qUg8ZG – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia called on the heads of state of the “Normandy four” countries, the Orthodox Churches, Pope Francis, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to prevent the planned adoption by the Verkhovnaya Rada of Ukraine of two laws that are regarded by the Russian Orthodox Church […]
CONTINUE READINGRISU (16.05.2017) – http://bit.ly/2qUFarZ – The faithful of the UOC (MP) across Ukraine are protesting against the adoption by Ukrainian Parliament of Bills 4128 and 4511 scheduled for May 18. This was reported by the Information and Education Department of the UOC (MP), having received information from press services of their dioceses. Bills No. […]
CONTINUE READINGItaly’s Supreme Court has ruled against a Sikh migrant who wanted to carry a ceremonial knife during a public procession. By Isabelle Gerretsen International Business Times (16.05.2017) – http://bit.ly/2qrnQsU – Sikhs argue that carrying a Kirpan, a ceremonial knife, is an important expression of their religious duty. The Sikh man was appealing against another court’s […]
CONTINUE READINGUSCIRF (15.05.2017) – http://bit.ly/2qNV5Ir – Commissioner Jackie Wolcott sent the following letter to Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh and Mrs. Tran Thi Hong on May 15, 2017. May 15, 2017 Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh Xuan Loc Prison Dong Nai Province, Vietnam Mrs. Tran Thi Hong Hoa Lu Ward, Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province, Vietnam Dear […]
CONTINUE READINGBy Irina Popescu Romania Insider (16.05.2017) – http://bit.ly/2qr28pi – Prosecutors from the National Anticorruption Department (DNA) want Archbishop Teodosie Petrescu, a senior official of the Romanian Orthodox Church, to be placed under house arrest. Archbishop Teodosie, who is the head of the Orthodox Church in Constanta county, is currently under judicial control and will stand […]
CONTINUE READING250 million dollars are needed for the rebuilding of almost 13,000 homes in the Nineveh Plains in Iraq. The pontifical foundation, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), has called on every political, religious and humanitarian organization to join them in supporting the reconstruction program in the Nineveh Plains. NRC (13.05.2017) – http://bit.ly/2rliz4z – Aid to […]
CONTINUE READINGConstitutional right to alternative service denied for young people after Supreme Court’s decision liquidating Jehovah’s Witnesses organization Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia (11.05.2017) – http://bit.ly/2qne2i1 – On 6 April 2017, a meeting of the draft commission was held in the military commissariat of the city of Zelenodolsk (Tatarstan) with regard to the case of an 18-year-old adherent […]
CONTINUE READINGChinaAid (12.05.2017) – http://bit.ly/2qiSpRG – Authorities in China’s coastal Fujian province banned a church, accusing its members of “establishing religious sites” without approval and “collaborating with Korea.” In a notice, authorities accused the River of Life Berean Church and the Bereans Research Institute of Theology of having Korean connections and setting up illegal religious meeting […]
CONTINUE READINGHRWF (15.05.2017) – On 13 May, the Muslim woman who had vandalized and desecrated the altar of the Ste Marie Madeleine Church in Rennes-le-Château was declared accountable for her acts after being examined by psychiatrists and will be tried on 8 September. In the meantime she is under court supervision and may not go to […]
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