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		<title>In Kyiv several armed ATO fighters beat up a UOC priest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2020 19:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 5, 2020. In the evening, September 4, 2020, several armed ATO fighters near the NewWay mall in Kyiv beat a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, reports Vesti. According to media reports, the victim received very serious injuries as a result of the attack. Despite this, the priest refused to write a statement to the police against the offenders, saying that &#8220;God is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children&#8217;s shop run by UOC parishioner attacked in Zolochiv</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 15, 2020. On the night of August 15, 2020, in Zolochiv, Lviv region, unknown persons attacked a children&#8217;s shop belonging to a parishioner of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Representatives of the local community of the UOC reported the incident to the UOJ, providing photographs from the scene of the incident. In the morning, the owner of the children&#8217;s goods shop discovered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCU activist with the police beat up a UOC parishioner in Transcarpathia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 10, 2020. A 68-year-old parishioner was hit in the head when the UOC community, escorted by the police, tried to go to the chapel in the yard of the church re-registered to OCU. On August 9, 2020, in the courtyard of the St. Elias Church in the urban-type settlement of Yasinya (Lopushanka village), Transcarpathian region, one of the activists of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priest’s house vandalized with nazi symbols, public officials call to drive canonical Church out of Ukrainian city</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 16, 2020. Public officials from the city of Zolochev and the Lvov Province are publicly calling for the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine to be driven out of the city, and for the local priest’s house to be vandalized. The mayor of Zolochev, Igor Grynkiv, called for people to gather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspect apprehended in 5-yr-old case of murdered Ukrainian priest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July 15, 2020. Five years after the murder of Fr. Roman Nikolaev, former rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana in Kiev of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, a suspect has finally been identified and apprehended. Fr. Roman was attacked at the entrance to his house on the night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activist-journalist of OCU wishes death to UOC in her online video</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 19:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 17, 2020. Death threats for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the journalist Yeremitsa constitute a criminal offense, the Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Eparchy of the UOC noted. The Chernivtsi-Bukovyna Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church commented on the act of the OCU activist, journalist Galina Yeremitsa, who recorded a video on her birthday wishing death for the UOC and putting it online. “During the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beaten defender of the UOC Сathedral in Sumy dies in coma</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 19:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 18, 2020. After being beaten up by a soldier who was systematically involved in anti-church actions, the defender of the cathedral in Sumy dies without coming out of coma. On the night of May 14, 2020, Anatoly Borisenko, who served as the head of the security service of the Transfiguration Cathedral and the Sumy Diocesan Administration of the UOC, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armed attack on the Temple in Zadubrivka</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2020 19:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 5, 2020.  On the night of May 4, activists of the OCU took advantage of the difficult situation in the family of the rector of the UOC church in honor of the Archangel Michael in Zadubrivka (Ukraine) and made an attempt to seize the church. After the lights were turned off in the village, the cleric of the OCU [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two clergymen injured in stabbing attack in Moscow church</title>
		<link>http://orthodoxrights.org/two-clergymen-injured-in-stabbing-attack-in-moscow-church.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 19:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 16, 2020. A priest at a Moscow church, the scene of a stabbing attack on Sunday morning, told TASS that two injured men were his assistants. &#8220;During the preparations for the service, a young man rushed to the altar and stabbed my assistants with a knife. I want to thank all worshippers and the guards, who were able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCU adherents beat brutally UOC believers guarding the temple in Mashcha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 05:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 4, 2020. On the night of January 2 to 3, 2020, at 2:20, two dozen young men from among the OCU supporters with bats attacked four UOC believers, who were on duty near St. John the Theologian temple in the village of Mashcha, Kostopol District, Rivne Region. This was reported by the UOJ correspondent. According to eyewitnesses, aggressive activists, armed with metal [...]]]></description>
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