Statement of Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagrеb-Ljubljana about the current attacks on the Serbian Orthodox Church

Croatia

January 29, 2016. Regarding the media attacks of some individuals and associations on the Serbian Orthodox Church, its clergy and the faithful in Croatia, Metropolitan Porfirije made the following statement, as the official website of the Serbian Orthodox Church reports. “The reason, but not a motive or a cause, for brutal, unprecedented attacks and calls for lynching of the Serbian […]

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Discrimination against orthodox schools in funding.

Russia

January 29, 2016. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Kirill stated that the orthodox schools are discriminated against in the matter of funding as Interfax reports. “Though the principle of equal funding of public and private schools is enshrined in the legislation some regional governments are seeking ways to reduce funding of orthodox schools compared to the […]

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North Macedonia

January 28, 2016. After seven months of postponing of the scheduled court hearings, on 28th January 2016, in the Court of First Instance in Skopje started, the politically rigged court process against His Beatitude Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje, two Bishops, priests, monastics and believers of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric. The Orthodox Archdiocese of Ohrid published a […]

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Police proved the accusation of the “Freedom” party of Zhytomyr towards the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to be a provocative act

Ukraine

January 25, 2016. Act of vandalism was created by a resident of the city of Zhytomyr. It happened on the site of future temple construction, situated on Privokzalnaya place. As it was found out by the police officers, the man does not affiliate with any religion, as reported by the Union of Orthodox Journalists. According to the 34 year-old resident […]

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Vandalism in an Orthodox Church

Ukraine

January 21, 2016. The night of 20th January in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine), in the Church of Mother of God “Iverskaya”, unknown persons vandalized the miraculous icon of Mother of God as the website of the Union of the Orthodox Journalists reports. According to the rector of the church archpriest Nikolai Nesprava, the vandals entered the temple and broke the stained glass. […]

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