http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/abolish-the-human-rights-act-now-cameron-events-in-ukraine-give-us-no-choice/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/abolish-the-human-rights-act-now-cameron-events-in-ukraine-give-us-no-choice/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:08:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=115997 Mail Online: The European Human Rights system grants foreign murders the right to have a family life but it is powerless to deal with the real evils of a show-trial of a former Prime Minister in the ex-Soviet state of Ukraine. This Ukranian episode clearly demonstrates the toothlessness of European human rights system to bring about any real and effective civil liberties in the countries that need it the most. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/10/12/abolish-the-human-rights-act-now-cameron-events-in-ukraine-give-us-no-choice/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/05/new-ukrainian-catholic-leader-wants-meeting-with-moscow-patriarch-to-ease-tensions/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/05/new-ukrainian-catholic-leader-wants-meeting-with-moscow-patriarch-to-ease-tensions/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:23:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=100220 Catholic Culture: The new head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church has said that he would like to meet with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, in a bid to resolve tensions between the Moscow patriarchate and the Byzantine Catholics of Ukraine. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/04/05/new-ukrainian-catholic-leader-wants-meeting-with-moscow-patriarch-to-ease-tensions/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/18/ukraine-opposition-calls-on-president-to-stop-discriminating-against-churches/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/18/ukraine-opposition-calls-on-president-to-stop-discriminating-against-churches/#comments Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:14:20 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=92071 Kyiv Post: "MPs of two opposition factions, Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense and BYT-Batkivschyna, as well as 50 independent MPs, have called on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to stop the government discriminating against Ukrainian churches, in particular, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/18/ukraine-opposition-calls-on-president-to-stop-discriminating-against-churches/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/28/arrests-and-bans-during-patriarch-kirills-visit-to-ukraine/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/28/arrests-and-bans-during-patriarch-kirills-visit-to-ukraine/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:45:08 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=66788 Asia News: "'Down with the Moscow pope', is the slogan repeated by nationalist demonstrators every time the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia visits Ukraine. In fact it was brandished again today in Kiev, where Patriarch Kirill is on an official visit and were he opened the Synod of the Russian-Orthodox Church. Eight people were arrested for demonstrating against the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. In Dnipropetrovsk, however, the authorities have even banned any kind of street protests against Kirill, on this his third trip to the country since being elected in 2009." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/28/arrests-and-bans-during-patriarch-kirills-visit-to-ukraine/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/23/ukrainian-boy-5-slaughtered-like-a-goat-by-radical-islamist/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/23/ukrainian-boy-5-slaughtered-like-a-goat-by-radical-islamist/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:58:50 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=63892 FOX News: "A 5-year-old Ukrainian boy was slaughtered by an alleged religious fanatic as he played in a sandpit with his friends, Pravda reported Tuesday. ... The June 18 killing has threatened to ignite tension in the town of Dneprovka, in Ukraine’s Crimea region, after it emerged that the 27-year-old knifeman was a suspected Muslim fanatic, the Russian online newspaper reported." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/23/ukrainian-boy-5-slaughtered-like-a-goat-by-radical-islamist/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/a-great-catholic-renaissance-in-ukraine-may-be-at-risk/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/a-great-catholic-renaissance-in-ukraine-may-be-at-risk/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:28:16 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=62277 writing at the National Catholic Reporter: "Today, however, Catholicism in Ukraine may once again be at risk, as a new government has come to power which seems bent on reviving Soviet-style authoritarianism. On May 18, an official of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the successor to the KGB, visited the rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv -- the only Catholic university in the former Soviet Union, which means it's the only Catholic university in twelve time zones. The police official warned the rector, Fr. Borys Gudziak, against students participating in illegal anti-government protests. (Gudziak, by the way, is a 50-year-old Ukrainian-American born in Syracuse, New York, who holds a Harvard doctorate in Slavic and Byzantine Cultural History.)" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/04/a-great-catholic-renaissance-in-ukraine-may-be-at-risk/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/17/eastern-europe-scores-badly-on-gay-rights/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/17/eastern-europe-scores-badly-on-gay-rights/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 22:16:23 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=60951 EU Observer: "A fresh survey by the International Lesbian and Gay Association has said that the predominantly Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian countries of eastern Europe have the worst track record on gay rights. Ukraine and Russia scored the lowest on the ILGA index, closely followed by Belarus, Moldova and Turkey. In the EU, Cyprus, Latvia and Poland are the least progressive. Belarus police on Saturday (15 May) cemented the country's reputation by violently breaking-up a small, 20-person-strong Slavic Pride march." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/17/eastern-europe-scores-badly-on-gay-rights/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/02/15/could-new-ukraine-president-restrict-religious-freedom/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/02/15/could-new-ukraine-president-restrict-religious-freedom/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:01:11 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=52033 CBN: "Ukraine elected a new president this week and evangelical Christians are concerned that the winner will restrict religious freedom." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/02/15/could-new-ukraine-president-restrict-religious-freedom/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/14/ukrainian-official-refuses-to-let-elton-john-adopt/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/14/ukrainian-official-refuses-to-let-elton-john-adopt/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:52:59 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=35945 London Evening Standard: "Sir Elton John's plans to adopt a Ukrainian baby were shot down by the country's government today . . . Yuriy Pavlenko stated that under Ukaianian law adoptive parents must be married and Ukraine does not recognize homosexual unions as marriage even though Sir Elton and Furnish have undergone a civil partnership in Britain." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/09/14/ukrainian-official-refuses-to-let-elton-john-adopt/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/15/ukraine-bans-bruno-for-nudity-gay-sex/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/15/ukraine-bans-bruno-for-nudity-gay-sex/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:56:06 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=30101 Reuters: "Ukraine has banned 'Bruno,' Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy about a gay Austrian fashion reporter, objecting to its scenes of nudity and homosexual sex, the culture ministry said on Wednesday." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/07/15/ukraine-bans-bruno-for-nudity-gay-sex/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/26/economic-crisis-fuels-unrest-in-e-europe/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/26/economic-crisis-fuels-unrest-in-e-europe/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:45:24 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=13715 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/26/economic-crisis-fuels-unrest-in-e-europe/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/09/05/james-bond-actress-feared-russian-human-trafficking/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/09/05/james-bond-actress-feared-russian-human-trafficking/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:26:42 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=7291 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/09/05/james-bond-actress-feared-russian-human-trafficking/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/03/26/ukrainian-orthodox-church-could-split-from-russian-church-in-2008/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/03/26/ukrainian-orthodox-church-could-split-from-russian-church-in-2008/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:14:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/03/26/ukrainian-orthodox-church-could-split-from-russian-church-in-2008/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/03/26/ukrainian-orthodox-church-could-split-from-russian-church-in-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/03/10/homosexualism-does-not-correspond-to-moral-principles-of-society-ukraine-parliamentary-committee/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/03/10/homosexualism-does-not-correspond-to-moral-principles-of-society-ukraine-parliamentary-committee/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:50:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/03/10/homosexualism-does-not-correspond-to-moral-principles-of-society-ukraine-parliamentary-committee/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2008/03/10/homosexualism-does-not-correspond-to-moral-principles-of-society-ukraine-parliamentary-committee/feed/ 5