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 | Apr 24, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
This photo illustration shows a mosque and a church. The rumored proposal of a mosque being built near a Russian Orthodox religious site in Moscow has raised religious tensions in the country. NEWSWEEK; SOURCE PHOTO BY GETTY RUSSIA: Moscow mosque plan pits Putin...
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 | Jan 16, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA/ FAKE NEWS CORNER: “Ukraine is a Catholic conspiracy, the Pope is a monster and a thief,” a Russian Orthodox leader says Protodeacon Vladimir Vasilik defies ridicule by connecting the war to a plot by Pope Francis to incorporate Ukrainian Orthodox into the...
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...
