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Archive for the ‘Religious Freedom’ Category

the Strasbourg court has yet to issue a single ruling on pandemic-era restrictions and freedom of religion Photo: EFE

Analysis Opinion•Religious Freedom

These are the top 5 states for religious freedom in the United States (and these are the 5 worst rated)

The index evaluates 47 legal safeguards across six domains: government policy, healthcare, economic life, religious institutions, family, and education. These are then grouped into 20 core safeguards, offering a comprehensive framework for analyzing how far states go to actively defend the rights of individuals and communities to live according to their beliefs.

Analysis Opinion•Religious Freedom

Ukraine’s ultimatum to Russian Orthodox Christians

Kiev has ordered the pro-Russian UOC to sever all ties with the Moscow Patriarchate by 18 August. It currently has around 10,000 parishes, a number now equivalent to that of the autocephalous Orthodox Church. Defending Metropolitan Onufryj – who has always maintained a balance between rejecting war and maintaining ties with the Russian Church – is Larisa Brodetskaja, a veteran of the Ukrainian armed forces in the resistance against Moscow’s troops.