Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: The UN scrutinizes religious freedom in occupied and sovereign Ukraine Implementation of Freedom of Conscience and Religious Freedoms in Ukraine under Martial Law: International Standards, UN Findings, and National Law Enforcement Practice HRWF...
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: Arrest warrant for pro-Russian billionaire Orthodox priest Vadim Novinskyi By Willy Fautré, Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (29.09.2025) – On 15 September 2025, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv decided, as a preventive measure, to...
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...
