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Eastern Europe
Russian Metropolitan discusses “Ukraine” with head of EU delegation
Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations (DECR), spoke with Markus Ederer, the head of the Delegation of the European Union to Russia. Among the topics they discussed was also the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Interfax Religion and Mospat.ru report. The exact content of the conversation…
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Central Europe
Amnesty: Let Hungary revoke child protection law after failed referendum
The failure of the Hungarian referendum on the controversial child protection law shows that Hungarians reject the controversial proposal of president Orban. That is the conclusion of Amnesty International. The Hungarian government does not seem to respond to that request. The human rights organisation argues that the Hungarian government is…
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Southern Europe
Spanish court: Surrogacy violates rights of mother and child
In Spain, surrogacy contracts are void because they violate the fundamental rights of the surrogate mother and child, the Spanish Court of Justice ruled. The judgment of the Civil Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court followed an appeal against the Madrid Higher Regional Court ruling that established that a woman…
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European Union
Religious organisations critical of new abortion guidelines WHO
The World Health Organisation want to liberalise abortion worldwide. Religious organisations are critics of their new recommendations. “There should be no time limits for abortion, and people should not have to state any reason for an abortion.” That recommends the World Health Organisation (WHO) to combat the 25 million unsafe…
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Eastern Europe
Ukrainain Pentecostal Church members gather despite danger
Only twenty of the ninety members of the Pentecostal church in Kyiv remained behind. The rest of them scattered all over Europe. Pastor Serhiy Maneljok is one of the people that stayed. “We thank God that we are still alive.” For people in Ukraine, a new era started after February…
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Northern Europe
Number of marriages and divorces dropped in Norway
The number of divorces and separations in Norway has not been so low in 40 years. Last year, 18,000 spouses went separate ways, new figures from Statistics Norway show. The number of marriages, however, has also declined. Lockdowns due to the pandemic did not cause a spike in divorces. Last…
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Northern Europe
Northern European Churches break with Moscow
Lutheran and Orthodox bishops in Finland, Sweden and Norway declare that the Cooperation Council for Christian Churches in the Barents Region (SKKB) will cancel all activities because of the Ukrainian conflict. In a Facebook post, the Council explains that the war in Ukraine has consequences for the cooperation between Russia…
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Central Europe
Catholic adolescents add an inclusive plus sign to the name of God
The Catholic Young Community (KJG) in Germany no longer speaks about God but about God+. They see this change as a measure against the prevailing male notion of God. The decision was made during the last federal conference in Altenberg. God is more than a “male white Person”, the KJG…
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Northern Europe
Over 70 per cent of Lithuanians oppose same-sex partnership
More than 70 per cent of the people in Lithuania are against same-sex partnerships. That is the conclusion of a study conducted last month. The study was commissioned by the Laisvos visuomenes institutas, a non-governmental organisation that “participates in preserving and expanding open society in Lithuania”. There is currently a…
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Eastern Europe
Epiphanius: Patriarch Kirill sides with antichrist
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is the creator of a “criminal ideology” and has sided with the antichrist. That says the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epiphanius. The metropolitan wrote this in a Facebook post. In it, Epiphanius reflects on the developments in the war and addresses believers within the…
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