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...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
23 criminal proceedings opened against 33 pro-Russian clerics By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (28.11.2022) – Vasyl Malyuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine declared in an interview with Ukrinform in October:...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Draft law on banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (28.11.2022) – On 24 November, the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine published the text of draft law No. 8221...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Independence Day celebrated by religious leaders in St Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv HRWF (29.08.2022) – On Ukraine’s Independence Day celebrated on 24 August, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena took part in the solemn event “Prayer for...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Putin has a new great data base of religious (and non-religious) “extremists” Both books or pamphlets and individuals will be included in a mammoth Orwellian list of targets for exclusion and repression. By Massimo Introvigne Bitter Winter (26.08.2022) –...