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22 July, 2004
22 July 2004Dozens of dissident Orthodox Christian priests were evicted from their churches in Bulgaria yesterday, the BBC reports, in a move which a local human rights group, the Helsinki Committee, calls church "'unification by government decree.'" The priests had illegally occupied the churches since 2001, when the property was ruled to belong to the traditional church. The dissidents had broken away from the mainstream church after the fall of communism, accusing the Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria's Orthodox Church of having been illegitimately appointed by the country's late dictator. Read more
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