Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: FECRIS caught again cooperating with Putin’s sidekicks through Serbia Version en français By Willy Fautré, Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers Bitter Winter/ HRWF (14.08.2025) – On 19 and 20 June 2025, FECRIS, the European Federation of Centres of...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
BELARUS: Conservative anti-Putin Orthodox group raided Persecuted in Russia, devotees of the “Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire” may now be banned in Belarus too. by Massimo Introvigne Bitter Winter (20.09.2024) – The Main Investigative Department of the...
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UKRAINE: Ukraine is now ‘Holy War,’ Russian Church declares By Brendan Cole Newsweek (28.03.2024) – The Russian Orthodox Church has approved a document that deems President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine a “Holy...
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EU/RUSSIA: TV channel of the Russian Orthodox Church under EU sanctions Alexander Dvorkin, member of FECRIS board of directors and former vice-president, is linked to the TV Channel SPAS of the Russian Orthodox Church under EU sanctions Version en français Willy...
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Oleg Goncharov: the state is not pressuring the religions of the Russian Federation, they themselves collected a billion rubles in total for the victims of war (Credit: IRP) RUSSIA: Churches collect 1 billion rubles (10 million EUR) for ‘people in need’ in occupied...