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June 14, 2017 – A businessman named Mr. Polatsky sued the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in the city of Alexandria, Kirovograd region. He is now insisting that the Church of the Nativity of Christ is the property of his son. Moreover, he wants to take away the land, which was transferred to the community of the UOC for permanent […]

June 4, 2017, on the Day of Holy Pentecost, in the city of Kolomiya 13 priests of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC) together with their faithful and supported by “Chorna Sotnia” (“the Black Hundred”) fighters, entered the Holy-Annunciation church, which belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and celebrated a liturgy there. After that, the church was illegally locked, and since […]

June 6, 2017 – Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem speaks against attempts of Ukrainian breakaway groups to capture churches belonging to believers of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church. “We decisively condemn those, who commit actions aimed against parishes of the canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine. It is not in vain that the holy fathers remind us that destruction of church […]

June 5, 2017 – Priests of the Greek Catholic Church on Sunday, the Feast of the Holy Trinity, seized old Annunciation Church in the town of Kolomyya, the Ivano-Frankovsk Region. Militants of the nationalistic movement Chornaya Sotnya participated in the seizure. Its rector Archpriest Vasily Kobelsky told that Greek Catholics entered the church by deceit and celebrated a liturgy there. “This day […]

June 4, 2017 – The head of the Odessa city organization of the “Svoboda” party Sergei Soltasiuk said that the war will last as long as the country has the Russian language and the “Moscow church” exist (that is, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate). He posted this on his Facebook page. “Millions of Ukrainian citizens are […]