Radicals with Reach Archives

Ordo Iuris and a global web of ultra-conservative organisations

Ordo Iuris

A protest in front of Ordo Iuris headquarters in Warsaw, 24.07.2020. Source: Adam Chelstowski / Forum

International networks of ultra-conservative organisations have become a serious player in Central and Eastern Europe.

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07.05.2021

How Orbán’s government funds ultra-conservative NGO’s agenda

Ordo Iuris, Viktor Orban

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban smiles as he departs from a meeting at the EU summit in Brussels, Belgium July 20, 2020. Source: JOHANNA GERON / Reuters / Forum

The Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights, one of the Polish Ordo Iuris’s partners, has close ties to PM Viktor Orbán.

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07.05.2021

The inner working of anti-gender alliance in Central Eastern Europe

Ordo Iuris

A woman holds a cross during the protest against the ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Zagreb, Croatia, March 24, 2018. Source: ANTONIO BRONIC / Reuters / Forum

Polish Ordo Iuris is developing its network in Central Europe and co-founding organisations in Estonia and Croatia.

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07.05.2021

How radical movements are reshaping Central Europe

Ordo Iuris

Ordo Iuris collected 150,000 signatures on the "convention on the rights of the family". Pictured Jerzy Kwasniewski. Source: Andrzej Hulimka / Forum

We follow the meanderings of a long campaign to roll back women’s rights and overturn the Istanbul Convention.

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07.05.2021

Ordo Iuris: Diplomacy Task Force

human rights, Ordo Iuris, right wing

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As women in Poland stage mass protests against the country’s Constitutional Tribunal’s abortion ruling in the autumn of 2020, Angela Gandra, Brazil’s secretary of state for family affairs, arrives in Warsaw.

Konrad Szczygieł

23.02.2021

The golden lion roars from Cracow

Catholic church, Ordo Iuris, right wing

TFP logo, a lion on a red background. Source: Reporters Foundation

How can Our Lady of Fatima holy cards distributed in Poland add up to hundreds of thousands of euros that have been invested in a radically conservative organization in Lithuania? Our cross-border investigation.

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30.12.2020

Salve Maria, or millions made in Poland

Catholic church, Ordo Iuris, right wing

March for Life and Family, 20.09.2020, Warsaw. Photo by Reporters Foundation

The amounts funneled over several years by the founders of Poland’s Ordo Iuris to radical Catholic organisations overseas reach ten million euros. The discovery came as a result of our international investigation.

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28.12.2020

The Golden Boys of Fatima

Catholic church, finance, Ordo Iuris, right wing

Fernando Antunez Aldunate (center) and Jędrzej Stępkowski (right), prominent members of Piotr Skarga Foundation Institute of Social and Religious Education during a March for Life and Family, 20.09.2020, Warsaw. Photo by Reporters Foundation

Tens of millions of zlotys, expensive properties, and a behind-the-scenes war for influence and money – we reveal the financial dealings of an empire built in Poland by a group of Catholic fundamentalists.

Konrad Szczygieł

20.11.2020