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January 15, 2019 – An open letter of Metropolitan Luke of Zaporozhye and Melitopol to Vladimir Gryanistom, the chairman of Novonikolaevskaya Regional State Administration, has been published on the official website of Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s (Moscow Patriarchate)[note] The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an autonomous Orthodox Church with headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. It is spiritually and canonically linked with […]

January 12, 2019 – The state began to gradually shift from intimidation of believers to repression against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church[note]Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an autonomous orthodox Church with headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine.[/note]. This was said by Archbishop Theodosius of Boyarka on January 10 in an interview with the portal Orthodoxy.Ru. “From searches and interrogations they have turned […]

January 11, 2019 – According to the Union of Orthodox Journalists, Protopriest Alexander Bakhov, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate)[note]Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) is an autonomous orthodox Church with headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine. [/note] Legal Department, asserts that the Ukrainian Culture Minister Yevgeny Nishchuk’s statements that icons have been stolen from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra[note]Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is […]

January 10, 2019 – The vicar of Holy Dormition Kiev-Pechersk Lavra[note] Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is an ancient Orthodox monastery that was established in the 11th century.[/note] Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl made an announcement today in a video message posted on the monastery’s Youtube channel. Metropolitan Pavel called untrue a statement voiced by the former director of the National Kiev-Pechersk […]