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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>
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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>In Kyiv several armed ATO fighters beat up a UOC priest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2020 19:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[physical assault]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 5, 2020. In the evening, September 4, 2020, several armed ATO fighters near the NewWay mall in Kyiv beat a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, reports Vesti. According to media reports, the victim received very serious injuries as a result of the attack. Despite this, the priest refused to write a statement to the police against the offenders, saying that &#8220;God is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cross on Greek King and Queen tomb vandalized</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symbolic attack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[September 4, 2020. The cross on the grave of a royal Greek couple at the cemetery at the Tatoi Palace outside Athens was found vandalized on Monday. The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports stated that police found the cross on the grave of King Paul I of Greece and Queen Frederica broken into three pieces during a routine afternoon patrol, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rivne temple which OCU and UOC-KP cannot divide is vandalized</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[buildings of worship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[August 19, 2020. On August 16, 2020, the church of the Parish of All Saints in Rivne, earlier seized by the OCU, was found damaged: they tried to pull out the lock in the church, damaged the windows, and torn icons and a signboard. It is reported by &#8220;0362.ua&#8221;. The conflict over the church between the OCU and the UOC-KP community has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s shop run by UOC parishioner attacked in Zolochiv</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[physical assault]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 15, 2020. On the night of August 15, 2020, in Zolochiv, Lviv region, unknown persons attacked a children&#8217;s shop belonging to a parishioner of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Representatives of the local community of the UOC reported the incident to the UOJ, providing photographs from the scene of the incident. In the morning, the owner of the children&#8217;s goods shop discovered [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[interference by State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kosovo (territory)]]></category>

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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>Radicals attack UOC procession from Tetiiv to Rude Selo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2020 22:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worship disruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[August 12, 2020.  Activists attacked the icon and shouted insults at the pilgrims, including many children. On August 10, 2020, radicals attacked the cross procession of the UOC, which was heading from Tetiiv to Rude Selo in the Kyiv region to celebrate the miraculous Rude Selo Icon of the Mother of God. The video from the scene was published on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCU activist with the police beat up a UOC parishioner in Transcarpathia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[physical assault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukraine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[August 10, 2020. A 68-year-old parishioner was hit in the head when the UOC community, escorted by the police, tried to go to the chapel in the yard of the church re-registered to OCU. On August 9, 2020, in the courtyard of the St. Elias Church in the urban-type settlement of Yasinya (Lopushanka village), Transcarpathian region, one of the activists of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCU activists take over UOC temple in Volyn village of Zabolotsi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2020 21:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[July 26, 2020. Representatives of the OCU broke the locks on the doors of the Holy Cross Church of the UOC in the village of Zabolotsi of the Ivanychi district, Volyn region, as reported to the UOJ by the rector of the church, Archpriest John Sybira. He said that in the morning the believers came to the church to perform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attempt to seize the Holy Protection Church of the canonical UOC in Novozhyvotiv on the saint patron’s day.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[buildings of worship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 26, 2020. In Novozhyvotiv, Vinnytsia region, OCU activists attempted to seize the UOC Church of the Protection of the Mother of God, as reported by witnesses of the incident. According to them, representatives of the OCU first crowded on the stairs of the temple and tried to break the locks and get inside. The schismatics cut off the locks [...]]]></description>
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