The Court of Appeal didn’t dismiss the case of take-over of the cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Gribovitsa

January 21, 2016. The Court of Appeal of Volyn region allowed the appeal of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church community against the Ivanychevsky district court’s ruling (judge Mr. Neverov I.N.) of January 5, 2016, as reports the Union of the Orthodox Journalists. The decision of Ivanychevsky court contained a refusal to settle a claim of the Holy Pokrov religious community of […]

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Rivne Court infringed the rights of believers of the Ukranian Orthodox Church in Ptichya village

January 19, 2016. According to the head of the NGO “Public protection of rights”, human rights activist Oleg Denisov, Rivne city court judge ordered the arrest of a church building belonging to the religious community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Ptichya village, as reports the Union of the Orthodox Journalists. Thus, the court in fact deprived the Ukrainians of […]

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Vandalism of an Orthodox Church

January 11, 2016. It is the second time that the Church of St.Demetrius in Susica (Kosovo) was vandalised. Members of the parish council informed their priest Protopresbyter Sava Šmigić, and reported the incident at police station in Gracanica, as the official website of the diocese reports. The unknown perpetrators broke a window in the altar of the church and they […]

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Attack on an Orthodox priest

January 10, 2016. Unknown persons threw stones at the house of archpriest Ioann Savchuk, rector of the church in the village of Podluží Dubno district, Rivne region (Ukraine). The priest said that this was an act of revenge from the supporters of the Kiev Patriarchate, as the website of the Union of the Orthodox Journalists reports. Archpriest Ioann Savchuk actively […]

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Desecration in an Orthodox Church

January 12, 2016. Many significant religious and historical items were robbed by unknown perpetrators, from the church of Saint Paraskevi, in the village Orino, in Epirus (Greece), as the website romfea reports. The sacrilegious perpetrators took two very old books of the Gospel, the Holy Cenotaph, the Holy Grail, a Cross and a big Icon of Christ, which was placed […]

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