Orthodox Bishop denounces the deterioration of Orthodox Christians in Greece

Greece

April 5, 2016. Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Egialia, Amvrosios (Greece), denounced the deterioration of Orthodox religion in Greece from the invasion of thousands illegal immigrants, as the website agionoros reports. Metropolitan Amvrosios underlines the important contribution of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. He says: “What is the meaning of the transmission of news reports in Arabic? Does any single immigrant have […]

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Violent actions against Orthodox faithful

Ukraine

April 4, 2016. Those who were locked without food and water inside their own church have been finally replaced by others who volunteered to go in, reported Archpriest Anatoly Bogdanov, head of the local deanery, to the information and educational department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Fr. Anatoly is currently on the scene, in Pticha village […]

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Orthodox church in Georgia desecrated

Georgia

April 4, 2016. Last week Nino Andriasova, a resident of Tbilisi announced through social media sites that some inscription inexplicably appeared on the wall of Jvari monastery in Mtskheta. ‘Today I went to Jvary with some guests and what do you think I saw there… The walls were covered with inscriptions in Turkish, Arabic and Latin languages. Why is this […]

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Religious confrontation in Ukraine

Ukraine

March 31, 2016. A new bill, registered in the parliament, can not only legalize church raiding, but also provoke sectarian conflicts, it says in the UOC, as the website segodnya reports. A group of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada registered a draft bill aimed at amending the regulation of the activities of religious organizations. Legislative act № 4128 “On Amendments […]

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Draft bills in Bulgaria to change the law for religions

Bulgaria

March 30, 2016. Two draft bills tabled in Bulgaria’s Parliament by opposition socialist MPs to amend the law on religious denominations – including provisions that would limit the activities of foreign clerics – are causing controversy, with critics condemning the bills as an assault on religious freedom, as the website sofiaglobe reports. One bill was tabled on March 1 by […]

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