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December 23, 2015. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill disapproved the attacks and illegal occupations of churches in Ukraine by ultranationalists and urged for the unifying role of the religious hierarchy towards national unity, as the website prenglish reports. His Holiness expressed his concern about the incidents in the orthodox church, under the canonical jurisdiction of Moscow Patriarchate, in […]

December 21, 2015 Oleg Denisov, Human rights activist, legal Adviser of the Kyiv Metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), made the open statement addressed to the Council of Europe, Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Special Rapporteur of the Human Right Commission on […]

December 20, 2015 the metropolitan of Rivne and Ostrozhsk Bartholomew (Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate) sent the letter to the President of Ukraine Piotr Porashenko to stop the violence against Orthodox believers in the village of Ptycha (Dubno district, Rivne region). Here you can find the full text in English. “Dear Mr. President! In Rivne region, on St. Nicholas, terrible […]

December 16, 2015. Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria expressed his concerns with violations of Orthodox believers’ rights in Ukraine, as the website Interfax-religion reports. The Patriarch addressed to the Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko and said that he is concern about the numerous registered facts of violating rights of the believers belonging to the only canonical Church in Ukraine. He underlined the […]

December 15th, 2015. In the village Ptichnoye of Rivne region (Ukraine) the supporters of the Kiev Patriarchate continue to exert pressure on the superior of the local Church of the Dormition of the priest Nicholas Sisonyukn as reports Union or the Orthodox Journalists. In an interwiew the priest said that, the persecutors damaged many times his car by using nails […]