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		<title>Press release of the Holy Synod of Bishops of SOC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 19:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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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>Greek Church petitions to be allowed to serve Liturgy, lawyers seeking to annul order to ban Church services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 27, 2020. Although the Greek Orthodox Church earlier agreed to limit its services to just one-hour Divine Liturgies on Sundays, the state was not content, and on March 16 it banned all services until March 30, in an effort to contain the highly contagious coronavirus. However, while understanding the need to protect the faithful and all people, the Church [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Members of OCU beat a parishioner and rector of UOC temple in vlg. Priputni</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[14 September, 2019. A raider attack on the UOC church in the village of Priputni, Chernigov Region, ended up with hospitalization of the parishioner. On Saturday, September 13, 2019, in the village of Priputni, Ichnia District, visiting activists of the OCU, led by hieromonk Leonty, who was earlier banned from priesthood, cut down locks at the local temple and beat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New draft law of Penal code abolishes petty offences inter alia for malicious blasphemy and  religious insult.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 05:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 5, 2019 &#8211; According to Romfea News, a series of changes having a severe impact on Greek society will emerge from the abolition of the petty offenses with the new draft law of the Penal Code if it remains unchanged and not amended within the framework of consultation. The new draft law is dealing with the revision of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Current Challenges in Realizing the Freedom of Religion in Montenegro</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/current-challenges-in-realizing-the-freedom-of-religion-in-montenegro.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 05:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[impediment by State]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 18-20, 2019 &#8211; The Conference of European Churches had welcomed to Brussels the Delegation of the Diocese of Montenegro of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The issues discussed during their stay in Brussels were the current challenges in realizing the freedom of Religion in Montenegro, as well as the draft law on church-state relations (regarding property, registration and restitution). The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Administrative Court of Kiev closed the case on the competence of the  President of Ukraine to interfere in activities of the church and religious organizations.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 07:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 26, 2019 &#8211;  the District Administrative Court of Kyiv  has completed consideration of the case on the claim of the NGO “Rule of Law” against the President of Ukraine regarding the establishment of a lack of competence (authority) of the head of the state to interfere in the activities of the church and religious organizations, in particular by signing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Department of State published 2018 Country Report on Human Rights Practices for Bosnia and Herzegovina</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 21, 2019 &#8211; US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor,  published its Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2018 in regards to Bosnia and Herzegovina (“the Report”). In particular the Report highlights the problems concerning property restitution and discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina (“BIH”) in regards to the religious minorities, including the Serbian Christian Orthodox minority. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ukrainian Orthodox Church Representative to the European International Organisations points out “a further proof of the existence of systematic state policy of discrimination against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 20, 2019 &#8211;  The group of UN Special Rapporteurs,  six months ago, on October 30, 2018, appealed to the competent state bodies of Ukraine with a соmmunication request regarding the violation of the rights of Ukrainian Orthodox Church[note]The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an autonomous Orthodox Church with the headquarter in Kiev, Ukraine. It is spiritually and canonically [...]]]></description>
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