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March 1, 2016. On the premises of the Metropolitan’s Residence at the “St. Sophia of Kyiv” National Preserve, the regular meeting of the All Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO) was held, as the website of the DECR of the UOC (Moscow Patriarchate) reports. With the blessing of His Beatitude Onufriy, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, the […]

March 1, 2016. Amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On freedom of conscience and religious organizations” relating to the change of affiliation with religious centers by religious communities were brought in the Ukrainian Parliament, as the website risu.org.ua reports. The initiators of the bill No. 4128 were by Victor Yelenskyy, Svitlana Voitsekhovska, Pavlo Kyshkar and four more MPs, the Institute […]

February 26, 2016. The Cathedral of Candlemas which is being built in Konstantinovka (Ukraine, Donetsk Region) was seized by representatives of the ‘Kyiv Patriarchate’ on the 14th of October 2015. The diocese of Gorlovka filed a lawsuit seeking to settle this issue in accordance with the Ukrainian law, as reports diocese official website. A hering on the seizure of the […]

February 25, 2016. Patriarch Irinej of Serbia on behalf of the Synod sent a letter to Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, expressing deep concern with oppressions of canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine and threat of seizing shrines of all-Orthodox importance, as reports Interfax. “Our Christian conscience is deeply concerned with the destruction of centuries-old unity of Orthodox Church in Ukraine and with […]

February 24, 2016. On 22nd of February there was an arson in the temple of Mother of God in the city Mykolaiv, in Lviv region (Ukraine), as it is reported by the Department of Information and Education of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). The central part of the building was seriously damaged and a part of the refectory was […]