23 July 2019. Believers deprived of churches as a result of church raiding should not be embittered but endure everything with gratitude to God. Believers of the UOC should protect their temples and their interests by legal means, without violence and malice, stressed the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine in […]
» Read more23 July 2019. The Sixth Court of Appeal of Kiev has decided to dismiss the appeal of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. On July 22, 2019, the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal of Kiev dismissed the appeal of the Ministry of Culture in the case of renaming the UOC and left the decision of the District Administrative Court of […]
» Read moreJuly 10, 2019. Meeting at Valaam Monastery yesterday, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement concerning the present persecution and legal threat against the Serbian Orthodox Church on the territory of Montenegro, reports Patriarchia.ru. In May, the Montenegrin Cabinet approved a draft law according to which, “All religious buildings that were property of the State of Montenegro before […]
» Read more9 July 2019. Representatives of local authorities voted for the acquisition of communal ownership of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos Church in Ivankov. 15 deputies of the village council of the urban-type settlement Ivankov of the Kiev region voted to start the procedure for acquiring communal property rights to the UOC Church of the Nativity of the Most […]
» Read moreJune 18, 2019 – The Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC DECR) continues to publish its Information Bulletin on Rights Violations of UOC parishioners and clergy, according to the announcement on the official website. The third issue of the Information Bulletin covers the period from May 29 to June 10, 2019. One can view and […]
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