December 11, 2019. Due to violations of the UOC believers’ rights, 150 lawsuits and 250 court proceedings were initiated in 2019 according to the annual report of the Church to the Synod. On December 6, 2019, during the final meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the UOC Chancellor, Metropolitan Anthony of Boryspil and Brovary, presented a report […]
» Read moreDecember 1, 2019. In the village of Kurilovka, the icons of the Most Holy Theotokos and the Holy Great Martyr Barbara were stolen from an ancient 160-year-old church. On the night of November 30, 2019, in the village of Kurilovka in the Khmelnitsky district of the Vinnitsa region (Ukraine), unidentified persons robbed the Transfiguration Church, reports the press service of […]
» Read moreNovember 23, 2019. Members of the OCU broke into the Holy Protection temple of the UOC in the village of Riasniki, Rovno region. On November 23, at 5:00 a.m., supporters of the OCU broke open the door to the Holy Protection temple in the village of Riasniki, Goshcha district, Rovno region, and entered the church where, according to eyewitnesses, they were doing […]
» Read moreNovember 16, 2019. A local resident who had previously served a sentence for robbery told the clergyman that he “received an order to kill the Moscow priest”. On November 16, 2019, the editorial office of the LiveJournal received a message stating that Father John Deket, rector of the St. Elijah Church of the UOC in the village of Rososhka, Rakhov […]
» Read moreNovember 14, 2019. The actions of radicals in Ukraine in relation to the canonical Church are manifestations of terrorism, but their attacks remain unpunished, the IAO Secretariat noted. During a session of the International Secretariat, chairmen and rapporteurs of commissions of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy in Athens, its president Sergei Gavrilov stated that the attacks of the radicals on the […]
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