January 9, 2016. In the village of Ptichia, Rivne region (Ukraine), the supporters of the so-called “Kiev Patriarchate” attacked to the pilgrims of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and beat them. The Union of Orthodox Journalists was witnesses of the incident, as they report on its official website. The conflict between the believers of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and […]
» Read moreJanuary 6, 2016. For the first time, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation did not broadcast the Liturgy of Epiphany in the port of Piraeus (Greece), as the website romfea reports. This day in Greece, the centre of the feast is the Diocese of Piraeus because there is held every year the blessing of water in the sea with the presence of […]
» Read moreJanuary 6, 2015. The Romanian Orthodox Church wants the Constitutional amendment so as to prevent the same-sex marriages, as the website oradestiri.ro reports. The initiative was launched by the Metropolitan of Banat Ioan Selejan, at the end of the Christmas Liturgy in Timisoara. People who attended the Liturgy of Theophany at the Metropolitan cathedral in Timisoara on 6th January signed […]
» Read moreJanuary 6, 2016. Representatives of the so-called Kiev Patriarchate try to legitimize the capture of a church in the village Kolodyanka Zhytomyr region (Ukraine), as the website prochurch.ua reports. Representatives of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the so-called Kiev Patriarchate supporters met with the head of Novograd Volyn regional Administration, to discuss the situation. The non-canonical believers insist on […]
» Read moreJanuary 5, 2016. Unidentified people attempted to set on fire the church of St. Petro Mohyla of the Second Shevchenko Deanery of Kiev (Ukraine) as the information department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) reports. The residents of neighbouring apartment houses interfered immediately and the fire was put out before the arrival of the fire-fighters. According to the church […]
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