Freedom of Religion and Belief
LITHUANIA: Deacon Andrey Kuraev was accepted into the clergy of the Exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Lithuania European Times (22.07.2024) – On July 23, 2024, Archdeacon Andrey Kuraev was admitted to the clergy of the Exarchate of the Ecumenical...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
LITHUANIA and the Jehovah’s Witnesses, what is the matter? Enhanced state recognition was refused to the religious organizations based on arguments that have already been rejected by the courts, including the European Court of Human Rights. Version in Lithuanian by...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
LITHUANIA: Orthodoxy on the eve of a split or secession from Moscow? By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (27.02.2023) – Lithuanian Orthodoxy maybe on the eve of splitting into two branches: on the one hand, the Lithuanian Orthodox Church (LOC/...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Head of Russian Orthodox Church banned from entering Lithuania By Anna Neplii Kyiv Post (30.07.2022) – https://bit.ly/3Bx0kzy – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has confirmed a ban on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Conscientious objection: Jehovah’s Witnesses win a case in Strasbourg Registrar of the European Court (07.06.2022) – In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case of Teliatnikov v. Lithuania (application no. 51914/19) the European Court of Human Rights held,...
