December 16, 2015. Unknown perpetrators vandalized the chapel of Saint Irini in Spilia region in Crete (Greece), as the website neakriti reports. Unknown perpetrators violated the doors of the church in order to steal money. As they did not found the amount that they expected, they caused serious damages by breaking the icons and destroying the screen, which separates the […]
» Read moreDecember 16, 2015. The Investigative Committee of Kirov region (Russia) started a criminal prosecution against two inhabitants, as the website of the Investigation Department of Kirov region reports. The prosecution is based on the Criminal Code (public actions, expressing obvious disrespect for society in order to insult religious feelings of believers). According to the investigators, at the evening of September […]
» Read moreDecember 15, 2015. Eight icons were stolen from the Church of Saint Dimitrios in Pogoni region (Greece), as the website romfea reports. The unknown perpetrators violated the doors of the church. The Church of Saint Dimitrios is a historical monument that was built before 1814. It was an important place of prayer for Greeks during the years of Revolution against […]
» Read moreDecember 15th, 2015. In the village Ptichnoye of Rivne region (Ukraine) the supporters of the Kiev Patriarchate continue to exert pressure on the superior of the local Church of the Dormition of the priest Nicholas Sisonyukn as reports Union or the Orthodox Journalists. In an interwiew the priest said that, the persecutors damaged many times his car by using nails […]
» Read moreDecember 15, 2015. Representatives of the self-proclaimed Kiev Patriarchate tried to seize the Orthodox Church of St. Anna in the village of Kuta in Ternopil region (Ukraine), as reports information service of the UOC MP. They gathered in front of the church door, demanding to give them the right to alternate services to the community of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. […]
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