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December 12, 2016. In Bania Lisovitskaya village of Stryi district, Lviv region (Ukraine) the “Right Sector” activists carried out an action against the UOC. Radicals distributed leaflets and hanged posters of the church fence with “drive away Moscow priests” agitation, as reports the UOJ website. “We are used to such actions, Lviv eparchy commented to the UOJ on the incident. […]

November 2, 2016. Representatives of the Special Monitoring Mission got interested in the draft decision of Krivoy Rog City Council, which has to do with one of the diocese’s parishes, as reports the union of the orthodox journalists. On 31 October representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission met with Metropolitan of Krivoy Rog and Nikopol Ephrem. A matter of […]

November 7 2016. About two o’clock in the morning, Pavlograd local residents saw a fire in the Saints Cyril and Methodius church of the UOC. The people who called the police and the fire service also noticed two masked men running away from the church, reports a UOJ. “Police and firefighters arrived very quickly, – says the rector, Archpriest Andrei […]

November 4, 2016. The Mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk said that Lviv Economic Court of Appeal settled the claim on cancellation of a lease with the Ivano-Frankivsk diocese of the UOC. In the city with a population of over 250 thousand people there are only two temples belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, one of them the City Council of Ivano-Frankivsk decided […]

November 3, 2016. The Verkhovna Rada did not adopt on first reading bill № 4987 on the introduction of pastoral care in health care service. According to UNIAN, only 165 deputies voted in favour of this decision, with the required minimum of 226, as reports the union of the oerthodox journalists. Also, the VR did not support the proposal to […]