June 10, 2023
CNN — The United States and Western countries, including Britain and Germany, skipped an event at the United Nations marking the 75th anniversary of the expulsion of the Palestinians on Monday after Israel called for a boycott. The event, the first of its kind organized by the UN, was dedicated to Nakba or “catastrophe” –
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Hundreds of worshipers attended Wednesday a service at the historic Kiev monastery accused of maintaining ties with Moscow as its monks’ expulsion deadline expired. Despite the church officially cutting ties with the Russian Patriarchate after invading Ukraine last year, Kyiv has said it remains de facto dependent on Moscow. The government announced the termination of
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Russian Orthodox leader and staunch Kremlin ally Patriarch Kirill on Thursday denounced the impending expulsion of monks from a monastery in Kyiv over its ties to Russia. Ukraine last week announced it was terminating a lease that allowed the church to occupy part of the 11th-century Pechersky Monastery for free, but the monks said they
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