August 10, 2016. Radical activists were set to grab a near-cemetery church of Saint Basil the Great from the UOC community in Vinnitsa region, Ukraine. According to the UOJ source, thanks to the priests’ awareness-raising efforts, the radicals changed their mind. The activists insisted that “there is no place for the Moscow Patriarchate on the Ukrainian lands.” “At the congregation […]
» Read moreAugust 10, 2016. Obuhov (Ukraine) city’s mayor Alexandr Levchenko ordered to dismantle a provocative billboard which is likely to be directed against the Russian Orthodox Church, as repors the Union of the Orthodox Journalists. The billboard was set up by Obuhov “Right Sector” division. It reads as: “The Russian Church is an invader’s weapon. Ukraine must have the Ukrainian Church.” […]
» Read moreAugust 9, 2016. In Bershad city, Vinnitsa region, deputy of the VR of Ukraine Anatoliy Matviyenko decided to take away the church from the local faithful he had helped to build and to transfer it as a gift to the municipal authorities, as reports the Union of the Orthodox Journalists. The deputy is set to expropriate it from the UOC […]
» Read moreAugust 9, 2016. Radicals arranged another provocation during the local orthodox cross procession in Cherkassy (Ukraine), as reports the Union of the Orthodox Journalists. On that day there were held festivities dedicated to the appearance of the Mother of God above the future Archangel Michael’s Cathedral. Upon the end of the Divine Liturgy there was held a Cross procession attended […]
» Read moreAugust 8, 2016. An orhodox church which houses the central office of the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod was struck by arsonists, as reports the national herald. Government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili condemned the attack which happened in the early morning hours at the Moni Petraki church. The attack is “abhorrent,” Gerovasili said, noting that efforts were underway to find the […]
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