The chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church discussed the interfaith situation in Ukraine with the head of the UN monitoring mission

Ukraine

March 9, 2016. The chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Metropolitan of Borispol and Brovary Antony met with Fiona Fraser, Deputy Chief of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission and the representatives of the Mission delegation at the Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra on March 9, as the Information and Education Department of the UOC reports. Both sides discussed the results of the visit of the mentioned international organization staff […]

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Hate speech from a priest of Kiev Patriarchate against the faithful of Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Ukraine

March 6, 2016. A Kyiv Patriarchate minister called for crackdown on the parishioners and priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church during the rally in the Independence Square in Kiev, as the website uoj reports. Among the attendants of the rally were Yulia Timoshenko and Oleg Lyashko. According to the source, the representative of Kyiv Patriarchate also requested to include in […]

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Attempt to Desecrate the Cross on the Construction Site of an Orthodox Church

Russia

March 3, 2016. Law enforcement officers of Losinoostrovsky North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow (Russia) prevented an attempt to desecrate the orthodox cross located on the construction site on Ostashkovskiy Alley, as orthodox radiostation Radonez and the press service of the ‘Sorok Sorokov’ orthodox movement reports. Police officers ordered to dismantle the tent camp in the Torfyanka Park that was set up […]

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The Standing Synod of the Church of Greece concerning a new law which is in contradiction with the Teaching of the Orthodox Church

Greece

March 1, 2016. In the session of March, the Standing Synod of the Church of Greece expressed its discomfort against the new law (4368/2016) about the willing of the funeral of a departed person, as the official website of the Church of Greece reports. The new law imposes the obligation to all Greek priests to celebrate the office of funeral […]

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The Regular meeting of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations calls the authorities to listen to the voice of people

Ukraine

March 1, 2016. On the premises of the Metropolitan’s Residence at the “St. Sophia of Kyiv” National Preserve, the regular meeting of the All Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO) was held, as the website of the DECR of the UOC (Moscow Patriarchate) reports. With the blessing of His Beatitude Onufriy, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, the […]

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