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Renewed Continuation of Illegal Construction work on Decani-Plav Highway within Visoki Dečani Monastery’s Special Protective Zone

August 14, 2020 interference by State, Kosovo (territory)

August 14, 2020. Despite Kosovo’s Law on Special Protective Zones explicitly forbidding building highways and transit roads through Special Protective Zones, the unambiguous stance of the Law’s Implementation Council, and the position of international representatives in Kosovo that the construction of a Dečani-Plav highway through the Monastery’s Protective Zone constitutes an illegal act, the local Kosovar authorities in Dečani, together with […]

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Radicals attack UOC procession from Tetiiv to Rude Selo

August 12, 2020 Ukraine, worship disruption

August 12, 2020. Activists attacked the icon and shouted insults at the pilgrims, including many children. On August 10, 2020, radicals attacked the cross procession of the UOC, which was heading from Tetiiv to Rude Selo in the Kyiv region to celebrate the miraculous Rude Selo Icon of the Mother of God. The video from the scene was published on the […]

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OCU activist with the police beat up a UOC parishioner in Transcarpathia

August 10, 2020 physical assault, Ukraine

August 10, 2020. A 68-year-old parishioner was hit in the head when the UOC community, escorted by the police, tried to go to the chapel in the yard of the church re-registered to OCU. On August 9, 2020, in the courtyard of the St. Elias Church in the urban-type settlement of Yasinya (Lopushanka village), Transcarpathian region, one of the activists of the […]

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OCU activists take over UOC temple in Volyn village of Zabolotsi

July 26, 2020 Europe

July 26, 2020. Representatives of the OCU broke the locks on the doors of the Holy Cross Church of the UOC in the village of Zabolotsi of the Ivanychi district, Volyn region, as reported to the UOJ by the rector of the church, Archpriest John Sybira. He said that in the morning the believers came to the church to perform […]

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Attempt to seize the Holy Protection Church of the canonical UOC in Novozhyvotiv on the saint patron’s day.

July 26, 2020 buildings of worship, Ukraine

July 26, 2020. In Novozhyvotiv, Vinnytsia region, OCU activists attempted to seize the UOC Church of the Protection of the Mother of God, as reported by witnesses of the incident. According to them, representatives of the OCU first crowded on the stairs of the temple and tried to break the locks and get inside. The schismatics cut off the locks […]

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