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Metropolitan Isaiah of Tamasos. Photo: news.church.ua

CHURCH OF CYPRUS TO APPEAL TO EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON BEHALF OF UKRAINIAN CHURCH

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By on Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories

Source: Orthodox Christianity [KIEV – June 26, 2019] Just as His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos of New Justiniana and All Cyprus has taken the initiative to try to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, so the Cypriot Church is taking the initiative to legally defend the suffering clergy and faithful of the canonical Ukrainian Church. The Church has launched the collection of signatures in Europe to file a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights in support of the Church led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Tamasos said during events in…

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European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN GREECE?

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By on Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories

Source: Public Orthodoxy Originally published on May 10, 2018. by Effie Fokas The Western Thrace region of Greece exists as an anomaly in Europe for the prevalence of sharia courts over secular courts on matters related to family law. This anomaly is left over from a population exchange between Greece and Turkey and the terms set out in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. The governance of sharia in the region (specifically, for interference in the selection of Muftis) has been the subject of several cases against the state of Greece in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), cases in which…

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