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🇰🇪 Kenyan Diocese takes priests to court on charges of violating constitutional rights to religion and assembly — "More than two dozen Western Kenyan Orthodox priests who chose to join the Alexandrian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church were summoned to court on charges of serving in churches of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and thereby violating constitutional rights to freedom of religion and assembly. In an article yesterday, OrthoChristian quoted Metropolitan Leonid of Klin, the Russian Patriarchal Exarch for Africa, stating that 28 priests were summoned to court. However, in documents from the Kakamega High Court then made available to OrthoChristian, 26 priests are named." 🔗 OrthoChristian | Read Full Article —

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Infamous hacker group takes aim at Russian Orthodox Church, leaks thousands of emails — "The infamous hacker group Anonymous announced on the second day of the fratricidal war in Ukraine that it is “officially in cyber war against the Russian government.” Since then, the group has claimed credit for a number of attacks, including against the Russian Ministry of Defense and Russian state TV channels. And now Anonymous has the Russian Orthodox Church in its sights." 🔗 OrthoChristian | Read Full Article... —

🇭🇺 PM Viktor Orbán hails his landslide victory in today's Hungarian election, before trolling his opponents and calls them "Soros' worst ever investment." 🌍 @European_Insider | 🕊 Retweet

Hungary votes for Christian values and rejects the globalist, pro-LGBT fake conservative opposition! 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺💪🏻💪🏻

Hungary votes for Christian values and rejects the globalist, pro-LGBT fake conservative opposition! 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺💪🏻💪🏻

🇭🇺 Hungary's nationalist leader Viktor Orbán announces his victory against the liberal, pro-EU opposition in today's election. A minor far-right, ultranationalist party, Mi Hazánk, also crossed the 5% electoral threshold and will be represented in parliament. 🌍 @European_Insider | 🕊 Retweet

🇵🇸 Jerusalem Patriarchate condemns Jewish extremist groups’ occupation of Christian-quarter hotel — “The seizure of the Little Petra Hotel by the radical extremist group Ateret Cohanim is a threat to the continued existence of a Christian Quarter in Jerusalem, and ultimately to peaceful coexistence of the communities of this city,” begins a new statement from the Jerusalem Patriarchate. Israeli police and Jewish settlers took control Saturday night of part of the hotel, which occupies a strategic position along a main Christian pilgrimage route, reports Middle East Eye." 🔗 OrthoChristian | Read Full Article... —

🇺🇦 Ukrainian Church denounces bills aimed at banning it, schismatics support the bills — "The new bills introduced into the Ukrainian Parliament aimed at shutting down the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and confiscating its territory are based on lies, and are simply a continuation of the Poroshenko-era policies that helped bring about the terrible times that Ukraine is now experiencing, the Ukrainian Church says. On the other hand, prominent voices within the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” have unsurprisingly expressed support for two separate bills that were submitted and registered by the Verkhovna Rada earlier this month, which take aim at the Ukrainian Church because of its spiritual ties to the Moscow Patriarchate, which is centered in a country that Ukrainian law recognizes as carrying out military aggression against Ukraine." 🔗 OrthoChristian | Read Full Article... —