Freedom of Religion and Belief
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...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
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...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Oral statement at the UN for prosecution of Patriarch Kirill Statement at the 50th Human Rights Council of the United Nations HRWF (07.07.2022) – CAP Liberté de Conscience shares its deep concerns with Human Rights Without Frontiers which has documented, for the...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Patriarch Kirill proposes stripping private clinics of right to receive female patients for abortions Interfax Religion (17.05.2022) – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has come up with an initiative to prohibit private clinics from performing the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church/ Moscow Patriarchate on the side of Moscow or Kyiv? HRWF (05.05.2022) – The autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in communion with the Patriarchate of Moscow is in a very uncomfortable situation. Over 430 clerics as of 5...