The Turkish State opens a case to recover the lands returned to the Orthodox Patriarchate in recent years

Turkey

April 21, 2016. Turkey has opened a case against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, to cancel the legal acts with which some land were returned to the Orthodox Patriarchal See, in compliance with the laws providing restitution to the minority religious communities of goods seized in the past by the Turkish authorities. This was reported by local sources, consulted by […]

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Representatives of the Kyiv Patriarchate prevent the UOC community of Kuty form performing worship.

Ukraine

April 20, 2016. On April 17 in Kuty, a town of Shumsk region in Ternopil, representatives of Kyiv Patriarchate prevented the UOC community’s access to the articles needed for performing worship, a member of the Union of Orthodox Journalists reports. According to the church priest Igor Kushniruk, after the first worship in an equipped tent performed a day before, it […]

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UOC Public Affairs Manager Calls on the Authorities Not to Support “Gay Parades”

Ukraine

April 18, 2016. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church calls on the government not to support public events organized by the LGBT community in Kiev. This was stated by the Public Affairs Manager of the UOC, Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich), reports UOJ website. The bishop noted that in recent years the so-called “fighters against discrimination” have increasingly speculated on the topic of European […]

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Acts of hostility against Orthodox clergymen

Ukraine

April 18, 2016. Priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are subjected to regular attacks from radical nationalists and persecutions of the Ukrainian Security Service, coordinator of the Human Rights Advocacy Group on Information about Crimes against personality Maxim Vilkov said, as the website Interfax-Religion reports. “We have registered about 30 such attacks, including not only attacks and illegal detentions, but […]

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Protest in front of Reževića in Paštrovići

Montenegro

April 15, 2015. ‘The latest attack on Paštrovska monastery in Reževići, by already tried and tested means, Directorate for Protection of Cultural Goods, once again showing hatred towards everything that is Serbian. “Paštrovići residents are ready to stand in defence of their sacred sites. A recent ‘invasion’ of inspectors of the Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Goods to Rezevici […]

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