Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: UN experts warn of persecution against Ukrainian Orthodox Church United Nations (01.10.2025) – UN experts* today expressed serious concern at reports of ongoing persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in Ukraine. “We are concerned that the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: Enrolment of two priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the army HRWF (30.08.2025) – On 29 August 2025, in the village of Pyriatyn, Dubno district, Rivne region, officers of the Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) took away Archpriest Volodymyr...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: 18 August: deadline for the UOC-MP to break off relations with Russia or… Interfax (17.07.2025) – The State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience (DESS) issued an order to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) to...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: The legal fate of the UOC MP against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine HRWF (07.10.2025) – Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the attention of the Ukrainian authorities to religious organizations with actual or...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: Zelensky revokes citizenship of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Onufriy By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on the deprivation of citizenship of Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church...
