Category Archives: Ukraine

The head of local authorities disrupted two festive Orthodox religious rites in a defiant and insulting manner.

interference by State, Ukraine, worship disruption

January 19, 2019 – In a village Brailov near Vinnitsa, the village council head disrupted two Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s (Moscow Patriarchate)[note]The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an autonomous Orthodox Church with the headquarter in Kiev, Ukraine. It is spiritually and canonically linked with the Russian Orthodox Church. [/note] traditional water consecration worships on the feast of Baptism, that annually […]

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Unknown perpetrators threw explosives into the porch of the Sumy Cathedral during the evening worship.

Ukraine

January 18, 2019 – The Union of Orthodox Journalist with reference to the official website of the Sumy Diocese, Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) reports that the explosion occurred in the Sumy Cathedral on the evening of January 18 right during the Divine Service of the feast of Theophany; “only in a happy coincidence, nobody was hurt”, informs the Sumy […]

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Representatives of the newly formed religious organization attempted to disrupt the Orthodox worship in the village of Krymno.

Infringement of Orthodox Christians’ right to freedom of assembly including acts of vandalism and desecration against Orthodox worship and sacred places, Ukraine, worship disruption

January 18, 2019 – The festive vespers on the eve of the Epiphany in the Ukraine Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)[note]The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an autonomous Orthodox Church with the headquarter in Kiev, Ukraine. It is spiritually and canonically linked with the Russian Orthodox Church. [/note] in the village of Krymno were attempted to be disrupted by the […]

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Metropolitan Luka addresses a request to the chairman of Novonikolaevskaya Regional State Administration to stop pressuring the priests of Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) [open letter]

Ukraine

January 15, 2019 – An open letter of Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol to Vladimir Gryanistom, the chairman of Novonikolaevskaya Regional State Administration, has been published on the official website of Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s (Moscow Patriarchate)[note] The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an autonomous Orthodox Church with headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. It is spiritually and canonically linked with […]

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A radical group S14 vandalise churches in Lviv by offensive inscriptions.

Ukraine, verbal assault

January 13, 2019 – The provocative inscriptions “Moscow Patriarchate get away from Lviv”, “MP-FSB[note]FSB is the Russian Federal Security Bureau[/note] ” (Moscow Patriarchate –  edit.), “S14″ appeared on two churches of Ukraine Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)[note]The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an autonomous Orthodox Church with headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. It is spiritually and canonically linked with the Russian […]

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