June 28, 2016. The Deputy of Petro Poroshenko Bloc Vadim Denisenko fell flat on his face while trying to play a joke on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), as the Union of the Orthodox Journalists reports. The innate craving for beauty played a cruel joke on the Deputy of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Denisenko saw a small church not far from […]
» Read moreJune 22, 2016. The Centre for Monitoring the Rights and Freedom of Orthodox Christians in Europe publishes its annual report for the year 2015. Monitoring the rights and freedom of Orthodox Christians in Europe within 47 countries of the Council of Europe means registering violations of freedoms of conscience, expression, assembly and other freedoms and rights. Usually violations occur as […]
» Read moreJune 21, 2016. Kamensky (former Dneprodzerzhinsky) City Council does not recommend inviting the UOC priests to public events, as reports UOJ. A particular attention is paid to schools. The head of the Municipality’s Education and Science Directorate calls to carry out “awareness-raising”. In the explanatory part of the document it is stated that there are parishes of the Kiev Patriarchate, […]
» Read moreJune 15, 2016. A terrorist act was averted in the largest men’s monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church with several centuries of history—the Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, as reports pravoslavie.ru. As learned from a source in the Federal Security Service [FSB], on June 14 in several cafes in the Pushkin region of Podmoskovye were found homemade explosive devices and schemes and […]
» Read moreJune 14, 2016. Cherkasy local authorities are going to demolish the Orthodox church of Candlemas, as reports the official website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. June 6, 2016 Fr. Vladimir received a letter from the Department of Architecture of the Cherkasy. The letter demands believers “to release illegally occupied land,” and otherwise threatens to dismantle the building forcefully. Cherkasy organization […]
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