Tag: OSCE

OSCE CONFERENCE ON DISCRIMINATION AND INTOLERANCE TOWARDS CHRISTIANS

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 21, 2015

May 18, 2015 – A conference took place in Vienna on ‘Enhancing Efforts to Prevent and Combat Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians, Focusing on Hate ... Read More

Russia proposes discussion of the issue of defense of Christianity within the framework of Osce

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 27, 2014

27/11/14 At a meeting with the Russian journalists after the political consultations in Athens, the Russian Federation’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexei Meshkov said that Russia considered it ... Read More

Swiss authorities thank the Russian Orthodox Church for helping release OSCE observers

OCP- July 3, 2014

Moscow, July 2, Interfax - Switzerland Ambassador to the Russian Federation Pierre Helg expressed gratitude to the Russian Orthodox Church for its participation in releasing ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill’s appeal for the OSCE observers held in Ukraine

OCP- June 29, 2014

June 2014 The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church has made the following appeal to help release the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s ... Read More

‘Rights of believers are violated’: Orthodox priest flees Ukraine in fear

OCP- April 17, 2014

Alexey Novikov (Image from pravmir.ru) RT - April 2014 The rights of believers are violated in Ukraine as the coup-imposed authorities don’t want the Russian ... Read More

Religious Leaders Call For Sniper Withdrawal In Nagorno-Karabakh

OCP- November 30, 2011

30/11/2011 YEREVAN -- The leading religious leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia have called for a withdrawal of snipers from the front lines in the ... Read More

Archons deliver Religious Freedom Presentations for the Ecumenical Patriarchate to OSCE

OCP- November 9, 2011

Warsaw, Poland 11/8/2011 On behalf of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons Theofanis Economidis and Achilles Adamantiades, Ph.D., presented two papers at the ... Read More

Armenian catholicos, US Ambassador discuss Karabakh Settlement

OCP- November 2, 2011

1/11/2011 Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II met with the newly-appointed US Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern. At the meeting, the catholicos called the Ambassadors’ ... Read More

Most Serb cemeteries in Kosovo in Poor Shape

OCP- October 27, 2011

Tanjug 27/10/2011 Serbian Orthodox cemeteries in Kosovo are in poor shape, the mission of the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) in Kosovo-Metohija ... Read More

The Catholicos of All Armenians hosts the Minsk Group Co-Chairs at the mother See

OCP- October 22, 2011

22.10.2011 His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenian, received the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and the Personal Representative of the OSCE ... Read More

Russian Orthodox Church urges OSCE to defend Christians’ Rights

OCP- September 13, 2011

Moscow, September 13, Interfax - The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's (OSCE) member states should not turn away from efforts to defend Christian ... Read More

Turks desecrate 500 churches in North Cyprus – OSCE

OCP- August 30, 2011

30.08.11 Since the occupation of North Cyprus (1974), 500 churches on the territory were desecrated plundered and converted to mosques, according to the OSCE report ... Read More

Serbian church warns anti-gay parade violence Unacceptable

OCP- October 9, 2010

(AFP) 9/10/2010 BELGRADE — The Serbian Orthodox Church on Friday spoke out against a gay pride parade planned this weekend but also warned against violence ... Read More

Archons’ Religious Freedom Mission in support of the Ecumenical Patriarchate continues in Central and Eastern Europe

OCP- May 14, 2009

Ecumenical Patriarchate Vienna-Prague-Bucharest-Istanbul, Europe5/7/2009A delegation of Archons visited Central and Eastern Europe during the week of February 21-28, 2009, in continuation of the Archons' Religious ... Read More