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	<description>Monitoring the Rights and Freedom of Orthodox Christians in Europe</description>
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		<title>Case opened against local deputy for inciting enmity against canonical Ukrainian Church in Zolochev</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 10, 2020. Criminal proceedings have been opened against a Deputy of the Lvov Provincial Council at the request of the family of Fr. Maxim Yoenko, a cleric of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Zolochev who has continually faced harassment from civil and schismatic representatives. The Zolochev police launched a pre-trial investigation on September 3 into the statements and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renewed Continuation of Illegal Construction work on Decani-Plav Highway within Visoki Dečani Monastery&#8217;s Special Protective Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2020 19:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 14, 2020. Despite Kosovo’s Law on Special Protective Zones explicitly forbidding building highways and transit roads through Special Protective Zones, the unambiguous stance of the Law’s Implementation Council, and the position of international representatives in Kosovo that the construction of a Dečani-Plav highway through the Monastery’s Protective Zone constitutes an illegal act, the local Kosovar authorities in Dečani, together with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discrimination of Ukrainian journalist, wife of UOC cleric</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/discrimination-of-ukrainian-journalist-wife-of-uoc-cleric.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[freedom of expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[July 21, 2020. A scandalous official who seized the UOC temples, demanded to &#8220;clear up a misunderstanding&#8221; and not to employ the wife of a priest of the canonical Church. In Zdolbuniv, Sergei Kondrachuk, adherent of the OCU and former head of the District State Administration, demanded not to give a job to the journalist, wife of the priest of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montenegro rejects Church’s appeal to reverse ban on construction of state-demolished monastery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 19:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Montenegro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[July 21, 2020. His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro appealed to state authorities to reverse the ban on the construction of a monastery near the southern coastal town of Ulcinj. However, the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism rejected the Church’s appeal, claiming that the sudden destruction of the residence at the Monastery of St. Basil of Ostrog last month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing churches and regulating services is unconstitutional—Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[interference by State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[July 21, 2020. Officials have no right to close churches and regulate services and religious rites due to the coronavirus pandemic, the President Council for Human Rights believes. On July 17, Valery Fadeev, the Council Chairman, presented a report in St. Petersburg entitled, “Lessons of the Epidemic in Terms of Civil and Human Rights and Freedoms,” which in particular states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Amfilohije about persecutions of Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2020 18:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 6, 2020. The Head of the Montenegrin-Littoral Metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije (Radović), believes that the current authorities of the country use fascist methods in relation to the Church and Her faithful, the website of the Metropolis reports. In his opinion, “President Milo Djukanovic sacrifices Montenegro and its existence for power and money. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukrainian Church wins case of illegal re-registration of parish against  “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2020 19:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[interference by State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 3, 2020. The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine has won another court case against “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” concerning the fate of an illegally re-registered parish. While the OCU boasts that several hundred parishes have abandoned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in order to join its nationalist ranks, the majority of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press release of the Holy Synod of Bishops of SOC</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/press-release-of-the-holy-synod-of-bishops-of-socjune-27.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 19:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[impediment by State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montenegro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[June 27, 2020. The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, at their session held on June 25, 2020, strongly condemned the continued persecution of the Church by the Montenegrin authorities, manifested by the latest summoning of His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral to the Security Administrative Centre in Podgorica for questioning, where he had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Сourt releases Bishop Joanikije of Budimlja-Niksic and clerics of SOC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2020 19:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[interference by State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 16, 2020. After leaving the police station, Bp. Joanikije thanked the faithful at the courthouse who&#8217;d come to show support and love and called everyone for peace and respect. On May 16, 2020, at about 0:30, the hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Bishop Joanikije (Micovic) of Budimlja-Niksic, and eight priests of the Cathedral of St. Basil were released from prison, in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UOC opposes criminal liability for pro-family actions</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/uoc-opposes-criminal-liability-for-pro-family-actions.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 19:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[freedom of expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[May 6, 2020. The head of the Mission for Family Affairs of the UOC Synodal Department, Metropolitan Panteleimon (Povorozniuk) of Rovenki and Sverdlovka commented on the bill amending the Criminal Code of Ukraine on crimes motivated by gender intolerance on the Mission’s website. The hierarch of the UOC explained that this bill is of concern to the Church as it [...]]]></description>
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