February 28, 2017 – Unfortunately, this year’s Forgiveness Sunday in the Polish town of Hajnówka in the Podlasie Province was a restless one. For the first time in the history of the famous Holy Trinity Cathedral, the Rite of Forgiveness had to be served immediately after the morning Liturgy rather than in the evening due to a scheduled Polish nationalist […]
» Read moreFebruary 25, 2017 – The members of the Chernigov oblast council have transferred the Ascension Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) to the Kiev Patriarchate. The church was handed over to the Kiev Patriarchate, despite protests from the UOC members and the Cross procession, conducted as a sign of protest last summer. There were attempts […]
» Read moreFebruary 22, 2017 – The municipal court of Borispol in the greater Kiev region has reviewed the administrative lawsuit of the protopriest Georgy Nosach of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), and has ruled in its favour. According to a journalist from the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ), the court case involved the prohibition of an Orthodox Cross procession on […]
» Read moreFebruary 22, 2017 – Metropolitan Amphilochius of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church gave his comments to the UOJ as for the statement of the Ministry of Culture, in which civil servants accuse the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of separatism. In particular, Metropolitan of Lugansk and Alchevsk Mitrophan was inciriminated laying of the stone for the monument to […]
» Read moreFebruary 21, 2017 – Residents of the Uzhgorod oblast village Irlyava wrote an open letter to the head of the local council, with a demand to resolve a dispute with the Greek-Catholic-Uniate community of the village. According to the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ), the residents are sure that the Uniates want to illegally seize the Saint Elijah Church, located […]
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