Church and State

The Kazan Church in Tallinn. Photo: Mait Ots/ERR Estonian Orthodox Church Thanks President for Blocking Controversial Church Law Archbishops Bagrat Galstanyan and Mikayel Ajapahyan. Photo: Sputnik Armenia Detained Armenian Archbishops Launch Hunger Strike in Protest CREDIT: official.md Moldovan MP Accuses Security Services of Intimidating Orthodox Clergy UOC spokesman: Met. Onuphry has no other passports but Ukrainian UOC spokesman: Met. Onuphry has no other passports but Ukrainian Photo: ctrcenter.org UN Report: Radicals Attack UOC Believers and Seize Their Churches Ambassador of Ukraine to Romania, Ihor Prokopchuk. Photo: Saul Pop Ukraine Presses Romanian Church to Recognize OCU Following Violent Church Clash in Chernivtsi Kyiv District Court. Photo: Investigator UOC Files Suit Against Government Over ‘Foreign Affiliation’ Inspections Photo: romfea.gr Metropolitan of Corfu Stands with Persecuted UOC Parish Facing Church Seizure Metropolitan Meletiy. Photo: Chernivtsi Eparchy/Facebook UOC Bishop Calls for Supervised Parish Meeting to Resolve Church Dispute Archpriest Ioann Koval. Photo: Dcn. Dombrovskyi’s Facebook UOC Priest Detained by Military Officials En Route to Serve Liturgy in Ukraine Screenshot from the Orthodox Times article. Photo: orthodoxtimes.com Pro-Constantinople Outlet Reports on Violent Cathedral Seizure in Chernivtsi Labour MP Stella Creasy proposed an amendment that would have fully decriminalized abortion and enshrined access to it as a human right, according to NPR. Photo: House of Commons UK Parliament Votes to Decriminalize Late-Term Abortions The "Life-Giving Spring" Church of the Lavra, restored by the monks of the UOC. Photo: UOC press service Then and Now: The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra's Rebirth Under the UOC 1990—2025 UOC believers breach cathedral perimeter in Chernivtsi. UOC faithful break through to cathedral grounds in Chernivtsi Photo: Orthodox Faith/Facebook OCA Files Suit Against Washington State Over Law Threatening Confessional Confidentiality