February 26, 2016. The Cathedral of Candlemas which is being built in Konstantinovka (Ukraine, Donetsk Region) was seized by representatives of the ‘Kyiv Patriarchate’ on the 14th of October 2015. The diocese of Gorlovka filed a lawsuit seeking to settle this issue in accordance with the Ukrainian law, as reports diocese official website. A hering on the seizure of the […]
» Read moreFebruary 25, 2016. Patriarch Irinej of Serbia on behalf of the Synod sent a letter to Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, expressing deep concern with oppressions of canonical Orthodoxy in Ukraine and threat of seizing shrines of all-Orthodox importance, as reports Interfax. “Our Christian conscience is deeply concerned with the destruction of centuries-old unity of Orthodox Church in Ukraine and with […]
» Read moreFebruary 24, 2016. Unknown vandals broke the icon of Saint Gerasimos, which is located in the chaplain of Saint Gerasimos in a hospital of Athens (Greece), as the website ekklisiaonline reports. This chaplain was built in 1905 and the icon of Saint Gerasimos was made with the art of vitro. The vandals didn’t try to steal anything. The spiritual and […]
» Read moreFebruary 24, 2016. The associations of teachers and professors of schools in Nea Ionia (Athens, Greece), rejected the visits of Metropolitan and the priests in schools during the religious course in order to discuss with students, as the official website of the diocese reports. Metropolitan of Nea Ionia and Philadelphia, Gabriel commented: “I am deeply sorry that in 2016, in our […]
» Read moreFebruary 24, 2016. On 22nd of February there was an arson in the temple of Mother of God in the city Mykolaiv, in Lviv region (Ukraine), as it is reported by the Department of Information and Education of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). The central part of the building was seriously damaged and a part of the refectory was […]
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