by HRWF | May 13, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Photo 1: Activists supporting the government’s effort to expel monks from the Lavra demonstrate in April. PHOTO: ROMAN PILIPEY/GETTY IMAGES Photo 2: Adherents of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, accused by Ukrainian officials of retaining ties to the Russian Orthodox...
by HRWF | Mar 21, 2023 | 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...
by HRWF | Dec 15, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church/ Moscow Patriarchate and their clerics under fire By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (15.12.2022) – For weeks, searches have been carried out in many parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church...
by HRWF | Dec 5, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Nationalization of the Pearl of Russian Orthodoxy in Kyiv: Controversies By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (05.12.2022) – The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra has been officially registered as a monastery within the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU),...
by HRWF | Nov 30, 2022 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
The end of unity: How the Russian Orthodox Church lost Ukraine Regina Elsner, a researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS). ZOiS (03.03.2022) – Since the end of the Soviet Union, dozens of theologians and scholars of religion...
