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March 5, 2017 – Assailants from the “Right Sector” along with members from the Kiev Patriarchate have once again tried to capture the Church of Peter and Paul of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). However, the fact that the church had many parish members inside served as a deterrence for further aggression. The assailants left […]

February 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 […]

February 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 […]

February 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 […]

February 21, 2017 – The Church lives for people and their salvation, while the priests’ duty is to tell about the truth of our faith through love. It was said by Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol on 17 February in the greeting speech to the participants of the seminar, dedicated to today’s challenges and search for new forms of […]