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A crowd of over 200 harassed and threw bottles at a nonbinary couple in Greece’s second-largest city Saturday night, sparking outrage from local artists and activists.
“We thank the soldier for his military merits, but we do not share his sinful preferences and LGBT agitation,” the Orthodox Church said in canceling the medal to Viktor Pylypenko.
Government authorities are raiding venues thought to be LGBTQ-friendly, while social media videos are encouraging violence against queer Ethiopians.
Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church has taken the 'blame the gays' mantra to a whole new level.
Nineteen-year-old Vuk Adzic said he feels "church is my only safe harbor."
Patriarch Filaret is now hospitalized for the disease, which has killed 3,000 Ukrainians.
No communion for you, say angry church leaders.
The Russian Orthodox Church has been accused of aligning itself with President Vladimir Putin.
The approval came despite opposition from the Greek Orthodox Church and makes Greece the 16th country in the European Union with marriage equality.
Vice published its full video report on the homophobic environment in Russia, going inside the nation's underground LGBT communities and confronting members of the Orthodox Church.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church said Tuesday that Serbs must be able to live peacefully in Kosovo after its final status is determined, and hedecried the destruction of Orthodox churches in the province, which he said was carried out with tacit consent of the ethnic Albanian majority. Patriarch Alexy II said Kosovo was ''sacred'' for Serbs and offered his help in mediating the crisis in the region. In a speech and a question-and-answer session with parliamentarians from the council's 47 member states, Alexy also lamented widespread poverty and a massive gap between the rich and the poor in Russia, and -- in comments going directly against the spirit of the human rights watchdog -- lashed out against homosexuality, calling it an illness.
