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April 24, 2017 – Human rights activist Oleg Denisov has called to rally support for a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP), who is being pursued by the Kiev Patriarchate for having a church in a tent. Members of the Kiev Patriarchate are accusing him of having “pro-Moscow” views and other “sins”. They have filed complaints to […]

April 19, 2017 – A Ukrainian media personality claimed that services in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) are are performed in the “Russian language”. It was claimed on air of Lviv TV channel Zik by political expert Oles Doniy who had apparently mixed it up with the Old-Slavic language. The political expert told that there is a Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow […]

April 18, 2017 – A man was arrested in the Troitskoe village in the Nikolaev oblast of Ukraine. A local village resident called the police to notify of a break-and-enter case in the local Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the morning of April 16. The police established that the man broke into the church just to light a candle. The […]

April 18, 2017 – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, at his last meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, shared photo images of paramilitary groups’ violence against parishioners of the (Moscow Patriarchate’s) Ukrainian Orthodox Church. “The silence of the world community is astounding,” the patriarch said at an annual Easter reception at the Russian Foreign Ministry. “Our Church is […]

April 12, 2017 – A new pattern has arisen within the Ukrainian Army, where the clerical positions are given to the clergy of the “Kiev Patriarchate” and the Greco-Catholic Churches rather than the majority Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (UOC-MP), despite protests from the soldiers themselves. According to the Head of Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s collaboration unit with the Armed Forces […]