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Very Rev. VITALIJUS MOCKUS, Rev. VITALIS DAUPARAS, Rev. GINTARAS SUNGAILA, Rev. GEORGY ANANIEV, Very Rev. VLADIMIR SELIAVKO, Deacon GEORGY TSEBUREVKIN, Orthodox Church of Lithuania (Lithuania)
At the beginning of March 2022, Very Rev. Vitalius Mockus, then Chancellor of the Orthodox Church of Lithuania, as well as Rev. Vitalis Dauparas and Rev. Gintaras Sungaila criticized in the media and on social networks the Patriarch of Moscow Kirill for his sermons which justified Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. On 17 March, an […]
Deacon SERGEY SHCHERBYUK, Russian Orthodox Church (Samara Oblast, Russia)
Deacon of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin parish in the Samara region. The Baza Telegram channel reported that in early April, the deacon was fined 30,000 rubles under the article on discrediting the Russian army in critical statements to parishioners and other ministers about Russia’s war against Ukraine. Shcherbyuk did not know for which specific incidents he was […]
Hegumen ARSENY (SOKOLOV), Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow)
Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov), a well-known biblical scholar, and a representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, signed an open appeal of the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church against the war; his signature under the appeal was the first. On 28 March, he launched a Telegram channel where he […]
Archdeacon ANDREY KURAEV, Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow)
Suspended archdeacon, famous writer and missionary, published in his social networks anti-war texts. On 21 March, his LiveJournal blog was blocked in Russia. On 23 August, Nikulino court of Moscow fined him for 30,000 rubles for a post in LiveJournal from 18 April, where archdeacon reflected on Russian civil war 1918-1923 and in some passages touched upon contemporary situation. […]
Deacon DMITRY BAEV, Russian Orthodox Church (Kirov, Russia)
Dmitry Baev, deacon of St John the Baptist parish in Kirov, a graduate of the Vyatka Theological School, left Russia immediately after the start of the war. He has been publishing anti-war articles and videos on his VKontakte social network page (currently deleted or blocked). Metropolitan of Vyatka and Sloboda Mark suspended him from ministry and referred his case to […]
Rev. IOANN BURDIN, Russian Orthodox Church (Kostroma Oblast)
The rector of the Resurrection of Christ church in the village of Karabanovo (Krasnoselsky District, Kostroma Oblast). On 6 March 2022, Forgiveness Sunday, in a sermon he said that he was praying for peace on Ukrainian soil. About 10 people were present, one of whom reported to the police. Two hours later, the police arrived […]
ALEH NAHORNY, Orthodox Church (Minsk)
Aleh Nahorny, an Orthodox faithful, publicist, a well-known researcher of sects in Belarus, author of the blog Sectologist On-duty, and editor of the site about sects, sekty.by. Nagorny studied at the Minsk Theological Seminary in Žyrovičy. He was a lecturer at many events and created — with the support of the Orthodox Church — the Center for […]
ANASTASIA NEKRASHEVICH, AKSANA FIODARAVA, TATSIANA KOTES, KATSIARYNA MIKHAILAVA, Belarusian Orthodox Church (Minsk); journalists YAUHIEN BATURA and DZIYANA SERADZJUK
On 3 March 2022, Orthodox mothers of soldiers planned to pray together at the evening service in the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Minsk. On the same day, the event was announced on the anti-war Telegram channel, Mothers’ Union. Law enforcement agencies attempted to disrupt the event. 20 minutes before the 6 pm. evening service, Yeuhien Batura and Dziyana Seradzjuk— journalists […]
Rev. ULADZISLAU BAHAMOLNIKAU, Orthodox Church (Minsk)
A clergyman of the Epiphany parish of the Belarusian Orthodox Church in Minsk, a member of the Minsk Eparchial Court, and a philosophy lecturer at the Minsk Theological Academy. On 31 August, he was brutally detained. During the detention, officers of GUBOPiK — the Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption of the Ministry […]
Rev. ANDREI NAZDRYN, Orthodox Church (Hrodna)
Clergyman of Hrodna diocese, rector of parish of Transfiguration in village Komatava (Hrodna district). It is known that following Volha Bondarava’s denunciation in connection with Rev. Nazdryn’s views on the war in Ukraine, the police conducted “a prophylactic conversation about compliance with the law and prevention of extremist offences and crimes” with him. On 18 May, the […]