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The Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal rejected the request of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for interim measures regarding the cessation of its activities. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine. The Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal is currently reviewing a lawsuit filed by the State Service of Ukraine on Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience (DESS) against the Kyiv Metropolia of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), seeking to terminate the religious organization. On Septembe…

The State Service of Ukraine on Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience (DESS) initiated a discussion on harmonizing state-church relations. A meeting initiated by the DESS focused on changing the philosophy of relations between the state and religious organizations. Participants included representatives from the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO), members of parliament, and officials from various ministries and executive bodies, as well as DESS staff, ac…

The Polish Orthodox Church proclaimed the canonization of three priests martyred in the 1940 Katyn Massacre during a solemn ceremony September 16, at the Church of Hagia Sophia-Wisdom of God in Warsaw. His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa, primate of the Orthodox Church in Poland, read the canonization decree before the Divine Liturgy, which was celebrated by numerous hierarchs of the Polish Church, and presented the icon of the new martyrs, reports radio.bialystok.pl. The ceremony honored Arc…

Grzegorz Havel, a Polish Carmelite monk, was recognized as a political prisoner by human rights activists on September 24th. He was detained in Belarus and accused of espionage, this was reported by Christian Vision. Kamil Kłysiński, an analyst at the Warsaw Center for Eastern Studies, believes that the recent arrest was the “last straw” for Polish authorities and likely prompted the decision to close the border with Belarus. Kłysiński described the situation as “shocking” and drew compari…

Der Ökumenische Patriarch von Konstantinopel, Bartholomaios, ist von US-Präsident Donald Trump im Weißen Haus empfangen worden. Das halbstündige Treffen, an dem auch Vizepräsident James David Vance teilnahm, fand am 15. September im Oval Office statt. Es bildete den Auftakt einer bis 25. September anberaumten USA-Reise des Ehrenoberhaupts der Weltorthodoxie. Themen des Gesprächs waren unter anderem die Herausforderungen für die christliche Minderheit in der Türkei, die Lage der Christen in Nah…

Von der aktuellen Kulturhauptstadt Europas Gorizia (Görz) aus haben Kirchenvertreter aus Italien, Slowenien und Kroatien einen gemeinsamen Appell zu Frieden und Versöhnung veröffentlicht. Der von den Vorsitzenden der Bischofskonferenzen, Kardinal Matteo Zuppi (Italien), Bischof Andrej Saje (Slowenien) und Erzbischof Dražen Kutleša (Kroatien), unterzeichnete Aufruf wurde am 23. September bei einer Gebetsfeier mit jungen Menschen aus Italien und Slowenien von den Bischöfen verlesen. Die Doppelsta…

Bishop Nectarie of Ireland and Iceland blessed the new Diocesan Cathedral in Dublin during a ceremony held on Saturday, Sept. 13. The Christ Church in Leeson Park was purchased by the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Ireland and Iceland with support from the Department for Romanians Abroad and hundreds of Romanian donors. The church, which previously belonged to the Anglican community, had been used by the Romanian parish “Exaltation of the Holy Cross” since 2005 until February 2025, when the owner…

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch kyr Porfirije presided at the Holy Liturgy and the rite of consecration of the restored Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Pakrac, the cathedral of the Diocese of Slavonia, which had been almost entirely destroyed during the war from 1991 to 1995. The restoration and consecration of this church, nearly 280 years old, is a great joy and support for the Serbians in Slavonia, who, after all wars and great sufferings, have endured on their land under the protecti…

In Goražde erinnert künftig die „Kirche der seligen Märtyrerinnen von der Drina“ an fünf katholische Ordensfrauen, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg in der Stadt im Osten Bosniens von serbischen Tschetniks misshandelt und ermordet wurden. Unter ihnen war auch die aus Enzersdorf an der Fischa in Niederösterreich stammende Sr. Berchmana Leidenix (1865–1941). Der Erzbischof von Vrhbosna (Sarajevo), Tomo Vukšić, weihte das in rund vierjähriger Bauzeit errichtete Gotteshaus am 20. September bei einem Festgot…