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UKRAINE: Law enforcers open nearly 60 criminal cases against UOC representatives The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has reported in response to a media query about the launched criminal cases against the church ministers Union of Orthodox Journalists (23.02.2023)...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: With Orthodoxy torn apart in Ukraine, mediation is needed to heal it While Ukrainian religious organizations are heroically engaged in humanitarian efforts, a conflict within Orthodoxy threatens the unity upon which the country’s future depends. By Aaron...
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...
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),...
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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...