Category Archives: Infringement of Orthodox Christians’ right to freedom of assembly including acts of vandalism and desecration against Orthodox worship and sacred places

Attempt to seize the Holy Protection Church of the canonical UOC in Novozhyvotiv on the saint patron’s day.

July 26, 2020. In Novozhyvotiv, Vinnytsia region, OCU activists attempted to seize the UOC Church of the Protection of the Mother of God, as reported by witnesses of the incident. According to them, representatives of the OCU first crowded on the stairs of the temple and tried to break the locks and get inside. The schismatics cut off the locks […]

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Сourt confirms illegal re-registration of UOC community in Vapniarka to OCU

July 2, 2020. The court dismissed the appeals of the Office for Nationalities and Religions of the Vinnytsia Regional State Administration and the OCU community of Vapniarka. On June 22, 2020, the North-West Economic Court of Appeal of Rivne ruled in favour of the St. Apostle Andrew the First-Called community of the UOC of the urban-type settlement Vapniarka of the […]

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MP from Poroshenko party demands to give Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to OCU

On June 22, 2020, the deputy from the “Euro-Solidarity” party Alexei Goncharenko published a video demanding that the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra should be transferred immediately to the OCU, because “this issue is long overdue”. “This is one of the symbols of our state, it is more than a shrine, maybe even the main symbol of Ukraine and Kyiv,” Goncharenko […]

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