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OSCE Mission Observers visit Zaporizhzhya Diocese of the Ukraininan Orhtodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) and express concerns about the provocative publications in mass media

June 18, 2019 Ukraine, verbal assault

June 18, 2019 – a meeting with representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine took place on the premises of the Zaporizhzhya Diocese’s Administration of the Ukraninan Orhtodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). The Secretary of the UOC Zaporizhzhya Diocese, Archpriest Gennadiy Yelin, posted details of the meeting on his Facebook page, reports the UOC Department of Information and Education. […]

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Vandalism of the Church in Donje Vukovsko (BIH)

June 14, 2019 Bosnia and Herzegovina, buildings of worship

May, 3, 2019 – The orthodox church of the Annunciation, in the village Donje Vukovsko in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was burgled and vandalized in the period between the Good Friday and Easter Tuesday. According to the news published on the website of the Dabar-Bosna Metropolinate, the oldest holy site in the Kupres Region was burgled by unknown perpetrators in the […]

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In Bukovina OCU activists forbid a UOC parishioner to go to prom

June 10, 2019 Ukraine, verbal assault

10 June 2019. Parents of classmates of the Bukovina school forbade one of the classmates to come to the leaving party due to the fact that she is a parishioner of the UOC. On June 9, 2019, the press service of Chernovtsy-Bukovina Eparchy reported that the parent meeting of the graduating class of the 9-year educational complex in Zadubrovka village, Zastavna district, […]

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A cleric from the Church of Cyprus visits Orthodox communities in Western Ukraine who had their churches forcibly seized

June 9, 2019 buildings of worship, Ukraine

From 6 to 9 June, 2019 Archimandrite Nektarios (Bakopoulos), Secretary of the Tamassos Eparchy of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, and accompanied by the Archpriest Mykolay Danylevych, Deputy Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC DECR), visited the parishes from the three Western Ukrainian Eparchies that had suffered as a result of illegal […]

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The Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continues to publish its Information Bulletin on Rights Violations of UOC parishioners and clergy.

June 6, 2019 interference by State, Ukraine

June 6, 2019 – In connection with the growing incidence of offenses committed against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and in order to properly inform and bring to attention these cases to the clergy and faithful of other Local Orthodox Churches, state authorities, mass media, human rights and expert organisations, the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church […]

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