November
Turkey: Armenian Foundation Deprived of its PropertyBy Thibault van den BosscheTurkey is pursuing a silent, methodical policy of expropriating assets belonging to Christian communities. A new case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) illustrates this once again:
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ECHR: Turkey Condemned for Delay in the Restitution of Greek Cypriots' PropertyBy Thibault van den BosscheIn a judgment delivered on 10 June 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) once again condemned Turkey for the excessive delay in restitution proceedings concerning property owned by Greek...
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Turkey: The Systematic Plundering of Christian PropertiesBy Thibault van den BosscheTurkey continues its systematic policy of plundering the properties of Christian minorities. The case of Balat Rum Balino Kilisesi Vakfı v. Turkey (application n° 3984/21 ), currently pending before...
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Spain's Constitutional Court Imposes Women on a Male Religious BrotherhoodBy ECLJOn November 13, 2024, Spain's Constitutional Court handed down a long-awaited ruling (STC 132/2024) on an appeal lodged by a certain María Teresita Laborda Sanz. Her request: to join the “
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Autonomy of Greek Orthodox foundations under attack in TurkeyBy Youssef AyedIn the case of Mavrakis v. Turkey (application no. 12549/23 ), currently before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) denounces the Turkish state's...
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Peril on Greek-Orthodox Foundations in TurkeyBy Thibault van den BosscheUpdate: On September 3, 2024, the applicant informed the Registry that it no longer wished to pursue the application before the European Court of Human Rights. The Court considered that it was no...
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Manifestaciones del 11 de julio de 2021 en Cuba: La implicación de los creyentesBy ECLJEl estallido social del 11 de julio del 2021 sacudió la estructura de poder del régimen totalitario que gobierna en Cuba desde 1959. Las protestas, que se extendieron por más de 60 ciudades en la...
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The Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople against Turkey at the ECHRBy Grégor PuppinckOn March 17, 2021, Dimitri Bartholomeos Arhondoni, better known as His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew , Primate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and spiritual head of...
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Dissolution of Academia Christiana Would Violate Several Civil LibertiesBy Nicolas BauerA decree dissolving the French association Academia Christiana will be presented in the Council of Ministers in the coming weeks, according to the Minister of the Interior. This response, published...
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ECHR: Mor Gabriel Monastery v. TurkeyBy Nicolas BauerThe Mor Gabriel (Saint Gabriel) monastery is one of the oldest monasteries in the world, located in Midyat (south-eastern Anatolia), where it was built in the 4 th century. It has an exceptional...
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CJEU's Ruling on Halal & Kosher MeatBy ECLJThe Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) fired a warning shot for religious minorities when it issued its first judgment on religious liberty issues in 2017. [1] Three years later, the Court...
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Ethnic schism in Ethiopia: A way out?By ECLJIn recent weeks, a violent split within the Orthodox Church has reverberated across Ethiopia. The dispute was about the creation of a new "Orthodox synod", which is the highest authority of the...
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Expropriation: ECHR Condemned TurkeyBy Nicolas BauerA foundation of the Greek Orthodox community in Constantinople, supported by ECLJ before the European Court of Human Rights, has just won a case against Turkey. This foundation complained of the...
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IACHR First Religious Freedom DecisionBy Prof. Ligia CastaldiWith Tomas Henriquez, Advocacy Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, ADF International. In the Sandra Pavez v. Chile judgment, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights –the regional human...
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Two orthodox teachers before the ECHRBy Nicolas BauerThe European Convention on Human Rights acknowledges the joint practice of the right to freedom of religion, citing especially the religious " teaching " (Article 9 § 1). In other terms, religious...
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Covid: Defending Religious FreedomBy ECLJThe worldwide epidemic has caused many upheavals, and the urgency of the situation has led states to take exceptional measures that no one could have imagined. The imperative of protecting public...
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A Convert to be sent back to Pakistan?By ECLJIn March 2020, the European Centre for Law and Justice submitted its written observations in M.A.M v. Switzerland (Application No. 29836/20) . This case deals with the issue of the danger faced by...
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Congregations' Rights of Association By Grégor PuppinckOp-Ed published in French in Le Figaro Vox on February 8 th , 2021. Can you believe it? In 1901, the legislator excluded Catholic congregations from the benefit of the law on freedom of association,
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Anti-Separatism Bill: Leviathan threatBy Grégor PuppinckArticle published in French in Valeurs Actuelles on January, 20, 2021. At his hearing at the National Assembly, Mgr de Moulins-Beaufort, representative of the Catholic Church, declared himself "very...
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