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...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: Does the UOC maintain ties with the Moscow Patriarchate? The official investigation by the State Service of Ukraine on Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience (DESS) is going on By Dr Ievgeniia Gidulyanova for Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (30.05.2025)...
