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February 20, 2017 – Unknown individuals have committed an attack on the Parish house at the Petropavlovsk cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) in the village of Vasilievka, Odessa oblast. The evildoers have committed serious physical assault against the Archpriest Alexei Glushko. The priest heard noises at around 3:00 A.M. outside of his home, where […]

February 20, 2017 – Igor Zelenski of the Kiev Patriarchate has published a provocative message on his social media page to proclaim that the Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in the village of Bugayevka has been transferred to the Kiev Patriarchate. Igor Zelenski was previously a priest of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). Further investigations have […]

February 18, 2017 – The Saint-Nicholas community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) in the village of Veliky Omelyanik, despite a won lawsuit, has received additional administrative problems. Representatives from the Volyn Oblast’s architectural-construction inspection department have disbursed funds for further judicial proceedings, despite the expiry of the legal payment term. The case was transferred to […]

February 13, 2017. Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church administration Metropolitan Antony of Borispol and Brovary compares ongoing persecutions of Orthodox believers in Ukraine to actions of Bolsheviks, as reports Interfax-religion website. “The things we see in certain western regions of our Motherland where Orthodox churches are seized, believers are beaten, priests with their families are thrown outside, can be […]

February 11, 2017. Representatives of the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine initiated a meeting with the dean of the Belgorod-Dniester district, Archpriest Rustik Vykhodtsev, during which frequent cases of theft and vandalism in Orthodox churches of the district were discussed, as reports the Union of the Orthodox Journalists website. OSCE observers in Odessa Cornelius Nolan and Aram Harutyunyan, as […]