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April 28, 2016. On April 27, 2016, the Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (DECR UOC ) His Eminence Metropolitan Mytrofan of Luhansk and Alchevsk has sent letters to international European human rights organizations, human rights representatives of leading international organizations who have offices in Ukraine, and also to embassies of major EU […]

April 28, 2016. Unidentified criminals attacked a house of the rector of St. Andrew Church in Dnepropetrovsk Archpriest Anatoly Lysenko (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate) and killed his wife, as the website Interfax-Religion reports. Criminals invaded the priest’s house in the village of Obukhovka of the Dnepropetrovsk Region in Ukraine on Tuesday night, tied his wife up, then laid […]

March 28, 2016. In an interview with Gazeta.ua the journalist Lana Samohvalova revealed why the Ukrainian Orthodox Church does not receive land for church construction in Kiev. During the interview, the journalist said that no land allocation is performed in Kiev, as it is strictly monitored by political party “Svoboda”. ‘Authorities in Kiev do not allocate land to the UOC […]

April 25, 2016. Unknown individuals have made an attempt to set fire to a wooden Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in Kiev’s Pushkin Park, as the website Interfax-Religion reports. Archpriest Valentin Makarov, the senior priest of the church, said the incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday. At first the flames were strong, but quickly died down. […]