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January 19, 2017. Churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of the Moscow Patriarchate have been attacked 13 times over the past year, UOC Information and Education Department head Bishop Kliment of Irpin said, as reports Interfax. “Only the UOC has been attacked, and the [Ukrainian] Interior Ministry hasn’t solved a single crime in this time. Even following a blatant […]

January 18, 2017. On 18 January nearly 5 a.m. the unknown made an attempt to break into Kiev-based church of Bogolubskaya icon of the Holy Virgin. There were likely six offenders. The church is located in Lukyanovka, on the territory of Kiev city clinical infectious diseases hospital for children, as reports UOJ. “Our duty man heard somebody knocking on the church […]

January 16, 2017. Vandals tried to set fire to the Peter Mogila Church (belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate) in Kiev on Monday, as reports Interfax. Four bottles containing an incendiary mixture thrown at the church bounced off its wooden walls, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church said. “It was only a miracle, under the protection […]

January 16, 2017. Moscow calls for a thorough and unbiased investigation of the attack on a Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Kiev and punishment of those responsible, Russian foreign ministry’s envoy for human rights, democracy and the supremacy of law, Konstantin Dolgov, as reports TASS agency. Kiev’s Peter Mogila church was attacked by unidentified men in the […]

January 13, 2017 – The demands of the Krements authorities to demolish the cupola above the cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is signaling a change of tactics in the ongoing discrimination against the church. The Human Rights activist Oleg Denisov described this phenomenon on his Facebook page. He is the head of the NGO “Public Human Rights […]