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27 June 2019, 11:12 | Freedom of Conscience |
Report on torture and murder of priests in Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine to be presented in the Hague
A report containing accounts of religious harassment in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions will be submitted to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague by a Ukrainian NGO, Truth Hound, UNN reports.
14 May 2019, 13:28 | Freedom of Conscience | |
Russia responsible for oppression of religious freedom in occupied Crimea and Donbass, states Resolution
The complete de-occupation of the Ukrainian territories of Crimea and Donbass will stop the brutal persecution of believers from different confessions inspired by Russian occupation authorities, and restore religious freedom. The participants of the Round Table on Religious Freedom in Ukraine stated it in the Resolution released on May 14, 2019 in the press center of the UMCM in Kyiv, the Institute for Religious Freedom reports.
3 May 2019, 11:53 | International relations |
Ukraine urges OSCE SMM to investigate seizure of OCU church in occupied area of Donetsk region
Ukraine urges the OSCE SMM to check reports that the Russian occupation administration has confiscated the church and church property of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) in the village of Kuznetsovo-Mykhailivka.
1 May 2019, 10:12 | Freedom of Conscience |
Occupiers in Crimea use metal detectors to search believers at Easter festivities
On Easter, the believers who came with their Easter food baskets to St. Volodymyr's Cathedral to the Chersonesos of Tavria Reserve were made to walk through metal detectors. In addition, their personal belongings were searched.
16 April 2019, 14:46 | Freedom of Conscience |
Religious leaders and human rights activists of Ukraine to cooperate for religious freedom protection
The first session of the Roundtable on Religious Freedom in Ukraine was held recently, which is set to become a platform for dialogue between representatives of civil society, primarily between religious and human rights organizations, as well as with the participation of academic institutions and government officials.
15 April 2019, 15:35 | Freedom of Conscience |
Russian law enforecement in Crimea search mosque, house of imam
Russian security forces conducted a search on April 15 in a mosque in the village of Shturmove in the city of Sevastopol. After "investigative measures” they went to the house of the imam of the mosque, Rustem Abilev. Russian mass media are working on site. This is reported by Crimean Solidarity, according to KTRC.
12 April 2019, 09:05 | Freedom of Conscience |
Moscow Snuffs Out Religious Liberty in Eastern Ukraine
No surprise, the Soviet Union was one of the great religious persecutors. There is nothing more fearsome to totalitarian dictatorships than being challenged by those claiming loyalty to a transcendent realm that lies well beyond the political one.
29 March 2019, 12:40 | Land and property problems |
Occupation authorities of Crimea to take OCU to court
The Russian authorities in Crimea filed a lawsuit with the requirement to vacate the building in the center of Simferopol, which is now held by the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). The Minister of Land and Property Relations of Crimea, Anna Aniukhina, told the Russian news agency TASS that the OCU failed to re-register the necessary documents and “is out of the legal framework”, Krym.Realii report.
28 March 2019, 10:53 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Occupiers seize only church belonging to OCU in Simferopol
On March 27, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in Crimea suffered a new encroachment on freedom of religion by the occupation authorities. Archbishop Yevstratiy (Zorya) of Nizhyn and Chernihiv wrote this on his Facebook page, according to Priamyy.
21 March 2019, 09:57 | Freedom of Conscience |
Russian law-enforcement in Crimea search members of Jehovah's Witnesses that is banned in Russia
The searches were conducted from 7:00 in the morning in the houses of seven Crimea residents in Yalta, Hurzuf, and other settlements. As the representative of the Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Ukraine, Ivan Riger, said, “the searches were conducted in the homes of a father of two young children, a doctor and average working people.” This is reported by Krym.Realii.
25 February 2019, 21:51 | Orthodox Church of Ukraine |
OCU Primate calls on international community to protect churches and clergy of OCU in occupied Donbas
Metropolitan Epifaniy has appealed to the UN, OSCE, EU and guarantors of the Minsk Process to exert influence on the occupiers who are set to seize Ukrainian Orthodox churches and to deport the priests of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The Head of the OCU made this appeal on February 25.
9 February 2019, 10:19 | Land and property problems |
Crimean occupation authorities want to seize only OCU church in Simferopol
In Crimea, the occupation authorities demand that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine “vacate the premises” of the Cathedral of Saints Volodymyr and Olha – the only OCU church in Simferopol.
7 February 2019, 13:12 | Freedom of Conscience |
US to foster protection of believers’ rights in the occupied territories of Ukraine
Special US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Samuel Brownback, assured the Ukrainian delegation of his support of the right of believers living in the occupied territories of Ukraine to freely confess their beliefs and convictions.
26 October 2018, 13:21 | Freedom of Conscience | |
First Deputy Head of All-Ukrainian Union of Churches of Evangelical Christians-Baptists: International community must see persecutions of believers in occupied territories
The international community must get to know that the situation with human rights in terms of freedom of religion in the occupied territories in Eastern Ukraine should not be ignored. Believers are suffering, the churches are being persecuted, and the international community must urge the Russian authorities and Russia's governing occupational administrations to stop these persecutions and to restore freedom of religion in Donbas.
19 October 2018, 11:10 | Freedom of Conscience |
Ukraine speaks in OSCE about religious persecutions in occupied territories
All religious communities, except the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (the Moscow Patriarchate), are prosecuted in the occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas.
11 October 2018, 21:39 | Church-state relations |
The Ukrainian government guarantees full compliance with religious freedom for the faithful of all confessions - Head of State
In Ukraine, the right to freedom of religion has been and will be respected, President Poroshenko says.
22 August 2018, 09:49 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine denounces attempt to hamper construction of the first UGCC church in Bila Tserkva
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine condemned the act of vandalism, committed on the night of August 17-18, 2018 in Bila Tserkva. A group of intruders knocked down a concrete fence at the construction site of the Nativity Church, the first church of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the city. An official comment by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on this issue was published on the Ministry's official site.
18 June 2018, 13:44 | National religious question |
Memorial to four church ministers killed by the DNR militants unveiled in Slovyansk
In Slovyansk, Donetsk region, a memorial was opened to commemorate the four servants of the local Protestant church “Transfiguration of the Lord”, whom the Russian mercenaries had abducted, tortured and killed four years ago.
15 May 2018, 10:28 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Muslims continually arrested in occupied Crimea
In the Russian- occupied Crimea, the village of. Baidary (Orlyne, Sevastopol) the raids were conducted early in the morning on May 10, 2018. According to their results, several Crimean Muslim Tatars were arrested, reports “Religion in Ukraine” citing Islam.in.ua.
11 May 2018, 11:28 | International relations |
Russia named responsible for deterioration of religious freedom in annexed Crimea and occupied Donbas
The Russian-occupied separatist parastates of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR) and Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) in eastern Ukraine remain heavily militarized war zones policed by parallel ministries of state security.

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