Freedom of Religion and Belief
Human rights activists call for indictment of Russian Patriarch Kirill European activists who usually defend religious groups from state persecution and now defending the public from church-incited violence By Aaron Rhodes The Moscow Times (22.04.2022) –...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Patriarch Kirill should be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to a NGO report HRWF’s contribution to the investigation of the International Criminal Court on the potential criminal liability of the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Interactive map of churches and religious buildings destroyed by the Russian army The interactive map is available here HRWF (12.04.2022) – During the first month of the war, the Russian army destroyed more than 60 Ukrainian churches and religious facilities in at...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Patriarch who’s in lockstep with Putin By Stephen Minas EU Observer (07.03.2022) – https://bit.ly/36PsFE5 – As Russia’s brutal war of aggression in Ukraine has escalated, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has not said...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Putin recruits Muslims in his war in Ukraine Putin hires Muslim fighters in his ‘holy’ war against Ukraine. Patriarch Kirill keeps silent about it and turns a blind eye By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (29.03.2022) –...