Russian church courts strip priests of rank for refusing Patriarch Kirill’s war prayer
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The Russian Orthodox Church has been quietly removing priests who refused to support Russia's war on Ukraine, an investigation by Systema, the RFE/RL Russian investigative unit, has documented. The church courts that hand down the verdicts operate behind closed doors with no procedural code, no defense lawyers, and prosecutors and judges drawn from the same circle. Patriarch Kirill personally signs off on the ru
The Russian Orthodox Church has been quietly removing priests who refused to support Russia's war on Ukraine, an investigation by Systema, the RFE/RL Russian investigative unit, has documented. The church courts that hand down the verdicts operate behind closed doors with no procedural code, no defense lawyers, and prosecutors and judges drawn from the same circle. Patriarch Kirill personally signs off on the ru
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