Category Archives: Ukraine

Krements bureaucrats are demanding the cupola demolition of an Orthodox Cathedral

January 11, 2017 – Bureaucrats of the Krements city council are demanding the demolition of the cupola at the Saint-Nicholas Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), located in the Ternopol oblast. This is despite the fact that the restoration was agreed upon with the Rector of the Krements-Pochaevsky historic-cultural sanctuary, according to a correspondent from […]

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The head of the Uman Orthodox diocese addressed himself to the authorities with a request to protect Christian relics from vandalism

January 6, 2017 – In an open statement, the priesthood and members of the Uman (Ukraine) Orthodox congregation are worried about the desecration of the Holy Cross. The archbishop of Uman and Zvenigorod Panteleimon has notified the authorities, law-enforcement agencies and other religious organizations about the vandalism of the Crucifixion Cross that took place in Uman on December 31, 2016. […]

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Attempt of seizure of Orthodox chapel in Ukraine

January 5, 2016. In village of Nikiforovtsy of the Nemirov district, Vinnitsa region (Ukraine) St. Basil the Great’s chapel was attended by representatives of the Kiev Patriarchate who got off the locks. The intruders did not show any documents proving their ownership of the temple, as reports Union of the Orthodox Journalists. The incident was preceded by a meeting, which, […]

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Odessa region orthodox churches robbed and desecrated

January 31, 2017. On the night of January 30, two churches of the Belgorod-Dniester deanery in Odessa were robbed and the altars desecrated. A total of UAH 4,000 was stolen from St. Andrew’s parish in the village of Andreevka, and Kazan Icon parish in the village of Monashi, reports a UOJ correspondent. The stolen funds had been collected by parishioners […]

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Radicals attack Orthodox shrine in Ternopol at night

January 3, 2017. Nearly at 3 a.m., activists of the “Right Sector” showed off at the background of the only canonical Cathedral in the city and banners calling to “drive away Moscow priests”. The pictures were posted by radicals on their page in Facebook. This was the first night picket of nationalists, as reports UOJ. Radicals might have been scared […]

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