July 21, 2020. A scandalous official who seized the UOC temples, demanded to “clear up a misunderstanding” and not to employ the wife of a priest of the canonical Church. In Zdolbuniv, Sergei Kondrachuk, adherent of the OCU and former head of the District State Administration, demanded not to give a job to the journalist, wife of the priest of the […]
» Read moreJuly 21, 2020. His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro appealed to state authorities to reverse the ban on the construction of a monastery near the southern coastal town of Ulcinj. However, the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism rejected the Church’s appeal, claiming that the sudden destruction of the residence at the Monastery of St. Basil of Ostrog last month […]
» Read moreJuly 21, 2020. Officials have no right to close churches and regulate services and religious rites due to the coronavirus pandemic, the President Council for Human Rights believes. On July 17, Valery Fadeev, the Council Chairman, presented a report in St. Petersburg entitled, “Lessons of the Epidemic in Terms of Civil and Human Rights and Freedoms,” which in particular states […]
» Read moreJuly 30, 2020. Locals were frightened by threats and nazi graffiti recently discovered at their Serbian Orthodox church in the village of Dobrič in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The graffiti was found on the fence around the Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the Orthodox cemetery on Tuesday. Unknown vandals painted, “All this awaits you,” as well as the letter […]
» Read moreJuly 20, 2020. In Kyiv, vandals threw stones at an icon at the UOC Church of Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg, breaking the glass and damaging the icon, reports Archpriest Gleb Pomelov, the rector of the temple, on his Facebook page on July 19, 2020. “For 12 years of life, the Church of Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg at the […]
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