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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>
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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>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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		<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>
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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>
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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>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>
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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>Dnipro mayor threatens UOC with blocked temple doors and dug-up roads</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/dnipro-mayor-threatens-uoc-with-blocked-temple-doors-and-dug-up-roads.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 14, 2020. Boris Filatov addressed the clergy regarding the upcoming Easter holidays in quarantine. Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov warned the clergy of the Dnipropetrovsk Eparchy of the UOC that if they want to &#8220;risk the health of people&#8221; at Easter, then the city authorities will ensure that they receive &#8220;a full range of measures&#8221; – including water and electricity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan of Montenegro and multiple clerics detained by police after celebrating Palm Sunday</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/soc-reaction-to-metropolitan-amfilohije-detaintion-in-podgorica.html</link>
		<comments>http://orthodoxrights.org/soc-reaction-to-metropolitan-amfilohije-detaintion-in-podgorica.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 13, 2020. His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro (Serbian Orthodox Church) and his concelebrating clergy were detained by police yesterday, Sunday, April 12, after celebrating Liturgy for the Great Feast of Palm Sunday at a monastery in Zlatica, a suburb of the capital city of Podgorica. Several priests were also detained after celebrating Liturgy in the city’s Cathedral of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St. Petersburg mayor’s order to close churches is unconstitutional, services will continue, says Russian Church</title>
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		<comments>http://orthodoxrights.org/st-petersburg-mayors-order-to-close-churches-is-unconstitutional-services-will-continue-says-russian-church.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 27, 2020. Residents of St. Petersburg, Russia, are prohibited from visiting religious sites from March 28 to April 5 according to new measures aimed at containing the quickly-spreading coronavirus. The decree signed by city Governor Alexander Beglov on March 26 prohibits “individuals from visiting objects (territories) of religious organizations, with the exception of the clergy and religious personnel of the [...]]]></description>
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